All I can say is =whew=! I've faced this sort of thing on windoze and DOS machines, but they were generally recoverable only from backup, after reformatting. On other thing that may have happened: Disk Warrior showed the three iCal files I had recently created were cross-linked. All three. So iCal still doesn't run, but I can deal with that. I'm just wondering why those three in particular. Brian Conner wrote: > Thanks for the detailed report, Steve. I'm glad I mentioned early on that > you probably had one than one problem there. > > BTW, we are all waiting for the upcoming Tech Tool Pro 4, which will be a > true OS X drive utility. Also, Disk Warrior 3, for the same reason. I've had > two drives in the past couple of months that neither TTP3 nor DW 2.1 would > fix. > > > Brian Conner