Haven't used Novell in ages, but I seem to remember that novel used to have an 8 char filename limit.

Peter

>Tables are stored on the network and we are using Novell 3.12.
>Thanks for trying to help me.
>
>Einar
>
>>I've Win2KSP3 and don't see such problem. Are your tables located on the local drive or on the network? What kind of network?
>>
>>>Sergey,
>>>
>>>I did not know that. Thank you for the information, but unfortunatly it doesn't help me because the error occured in a sub directory. I just used c:\ to show that I copied the backup file to the same directory as the original file.
>>>
>>>Is there a setting in W2K? We did not have this problem with Win95 or Win98.
>>>
>>>Einar
>>>
>>>>There's limited number of files you can create in the root directory of a volume. The volume subdirectories don't have such limitations.
>>>>