I have written a code to read the files in a folder that the user selects from browsing for a folder. I want to process all .xls files in the folder and used the 'DIR("*.xls",xlNormal)' directory search. It worked fine once and processed all the files but does not see the files when I run the macro again. I closed down Excel completely and tried again but it still does see the files. I tried a new approach using the FSO and GetFolder method and it worked the first time but ended up with an error the next time through. It knows that there are files in the folder because the error message that is displayed shows the name of the first Excel file in the folder and says it cannot be found ... be sure the name is spelled correctly. Anyone has any idea why this is happening? I am on XP running Excel 2003. I am also choosing a folder on a company server through a mapped drive (if this makes a difference).