Contributor: ANDRE V.D MERWE> Has anyone had any luck making GetShortPathName> to work? It's supposed to convert a long file/path> name to a DOS 8.3 structure... but it keeps returning> the same long file name I pass in. Try this, it worked for me.... function ToShortPath( sPath : string ) : string; var iLen : integer; sShort : string; szShort : PChar; begin iLen := Length( sPath ); szShort := StrAlloc( iLen ); GetShortPathName( PChar(sPath), szShort, iLen ); sShort := szShort; StrDispose( szShort ); Result := sShort; end;