Yes, less typing, but you can not tell whether you have a file or a directory with the given name. With my code you know that you have a directory and not a file!

>Thanks for the snippet Tore. I'll use Michel's suggestion and go with DIRECTORY(). Its less typing :)
>
>Mike
>
>
>>

>>IF ADIR(temp,'mydir',"D")>0
>> && Directory mydir exists
>>ENDIF
>>

>>
>>>I'm using VFP8. How can I determine if a folder already exists? I can't seem to find a built in function.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Mike.