On 21/12/05 Raoul Armfield wrote: >Also you don't have to use your BigC account as an admin account to do >installations. When you do installations as a regular user you should >be prompted for an administrator level username and password. OK thanks - obviously it doesn't make life easier. It's some of the data that is causing the permissions problems. I'll have another go with Disk Util and see what that does. >...........In any case, it is not a good idea to broadcast >on a public list what the names of your accounts are on your computer >especially not the admin accounts. They're not the actual names - just some I dreamt up . They were playing Mars from Holst's Planets while I was writing :-) A point does arise. is it possible to use characters in account names? Thus Mars might become M at rs or perhaps M at rs25 or even $M at rs25. Thanks for the advice. Chris