Ilbert, Tee, Thanks for the Spotlight assistance. I will leave 'bad' enough alone for now. Over the years I have learned that there is always a work- around. Regarding peoples' preferences for maintaining their drives and other things, I use TechTool and I am satisfied. I have also used Disk Warrior, but I will need to upgrade to run it under OS 10.4. There are freeware apps such as MacJanitor or OnyX which will do light but valuable maintenance jobs. Karl _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/