By any chance did you run Norton on this Cube? Because doing so can create that effect. Norton nicely correctly all those "wrong files" that start with a dot [ . ] and makes visible other stuff like Bin and so on. Clean install time or carbon clone an other drive, I reckon. I dont know what the official line is on this. I have not read any statements by Symantec but I guess they are there. I have certainly seen this problem but reckoned it come from that source. The Mac still ran. interested to other experience. John > 1) OS X Installation (slightly OT) > Has anyone (beside me) installed OS X on a machine and have Cores(OS 9) > along with several other aliases > all ending with (OS9) left visible in the main directory. As all files > of this nature, they are owned by the root. > My suspicion is they should have bee left invisible.