"The hard 256 limit, first of all; and secondly, a fixed amount of storage which holds all the folder names. So far as I know, nobody has gone to all the trouble of counting up the characters to see what this limit is. :)" Thanks for explaining this for me! I have had problems with the 256 limit but the fixed amount of storage would never have crossed my mind as the problem. I wonder how it is coded that it works this way? I've been doing solution 1 to some degree but will try solution 3 which I didn't know about. I am considering upgrading to either P5 or P6 but am hesitating as one of my machines that I use a lot is kind of marginal even for P4 and I don't really want to run two different versions on two different machines. Thanks again for your help! Thanks to you too zippyozzy!