No I try to aviod using the "Miracle fixes" programs like Norton promise. This was installing OS X on an OS 9 computer. Installed 1st time and left these files then did a "clean install" and again the same files were left behind. The program File Buddy was recommended but did not work because the files are owned by the root. Rod On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 01:39 PM, jallan at freeuk.com wrote: > 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.