Sorry to be a bother, seems trivial, just can't seem to find the right syntax for it... How do I check if a particular object exists ONLY in the current folder (the context) and is not being acquired? The script I have is - ================================== """ Add single folder along with manager/user programmatically to current folder Parameter: folderList (a list) """ curFolder = context #current context, where the user is folderName = folderList[0] folderTitle = folderList[1] if not hasattr(curFolder, folderName): ## create the folder curFolder.manage_addFolder(folderName, folderTitle, 0, 1) return 1 else: return 0 ================================== Unfortunately, if FolderName exists in the parent (or above) folder, the script will return 0. I only want to look in the context folder for the existence of folerName. Thanks again. Samir.