I'm pretty sure that Delphi 5 handles spaces in filenames ok but it has been a very long time since I have used that specific version. Is the file currently open by another process? It also could be a permissions issue.
Can you instead of loading it into a tStringList, try opening it with a tFileStream with the filemode set to "fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyNone".
Are you sure its not the "..\" thats causing the problem rather than the spaces. Have you tried to see if it works at.
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