Cheers, Guys.

Still no luck really, the file being saved is going into the users My_Documents 
folder, and the full path from c:\ to the end of the file extension is 68 characters 
when the file worked, and 70 characters when it fails.

I did see someone mention about slow machines causing problems.

Anybody?

Regards,

Andy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 September 2003 21:59
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> FW: File IO - bad filename



Hi Andy,

Was the problem encountered during createFile or openFile?

I've recently found that using baShortFileName is necessary in openFile() on Windows 
machines, but needs to be avoided in createFile().  Are you using baShortFileName at 
all?

If the path they are saving is longer than--if I recall correctly--127 characters, it 
will be a bad file name.  It is very possible to have a problem on the same machine 
with two different filenames simply because one filename pushes the total  file path 
above this maximum, and the other doesn't.

Regards,

Daniel


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