unix file system - the presence of an inode is what made me think of it. an inode is a file that contains information about a file - like user and group permissions and ownership. i suppose hfs+ uses inodes as well, but i never knew for sure. sounds like you could use a disk doctor run... On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Carl R Mockler wrote: > Don't know about using UFS. What is that?