Thank you both. I moved a bunch of files out of the directory and the problem disappeared. I'll bear it in mind in the future.Lynn priscamg@xxxxxxxx wrote:Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:I think with Xy3 (which I use), too many files in a directory will cause this.Don't use Xy 3, but it sounds likely. Recall that under DOS there was a limit to how many files could be in a directory. I've run into a similar problem in dBase5 for DOS.