BTW, I agree with Al even more than I mentioned before. xcopy and the win drag and drop do much better with big file and massive copies than most backup programs which I avoid like the plague. No kidding. I have known way too many six figure professionals whom I have seen religiously backup every Friday this time-- and then, when they needed something: NADA ZIP ZILCH and they tied last week's and the one before and before, and found that not one of them damn things ever worked! Me? My solution was to restore from the backup right away? Huh? Yep, basically the same idea Al was talking about. Let's set the Wayback Machine for 1983. . . . I built my first IBM machine, all genuine parts except the genuin Seagate ST-506 drive and Zobex controller. The owner of Zobex talked me through the mods to setup for THREE hard drives, so I could BACKUP C: to D: then RESTORE D: to E:, then I could delete the file on D: This way I got my "file by file" backup!!! This seemed so cute to others that I was eventually in PCWEEK on Mother's Day 1986 with my first national hit publication. . .go figure. . .they never mentioned the whole eBook thing. . . . Anyway. . .that was my first little claim to fame when I was still working on Shakespeare and The Bible, then got the idea for Alice In Wonderland that set the snow in motion to eventually create the eBook avalanche. Hee hee! mh