Peter Sealy said: >I >took that to mean that at every boot up [in my language also means >Restart or cold startup, not a log out log in] Disk First Aid checks >the startup disk. Is this not so? It it did, startup would be an unnecessarily long process. Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) How To Deal With Common Macintosh OS X Jaguar Problems http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html