Tim,

I just tried it using the EDITBOX flag and it does show up. Not sure exactly why this works, but the help says it requires version 4.71 of shell32.dll which may mean that it calls a different API.

? GETDIR('','Select Directory','',16)

HTH,
Kurt
>Hi,
>
>I have a situation where I need to use the getdir() function (using VFP6.0) to locate folders in a predetermined share name. The problem is that some of these folders begin with a "." (i.e. .E012001X0). When I use the getdir() function, all the folders are displayed except those that start with the ".". Any ideas?