eeeYES! YES!!! Ended up using File Buddy for OSX which has a new contextual menu feature. Clicked on the "File of Satan" and was able to see the file hierarchy and found that the file originated not from OSX but another drive's .Trash. Exorcised it from OS9. Whew! Thank you all. Rick > RE; it sounds like an invisablee file that has become visable from one > of > your maintenance programs, > I found a download of cocktail and eventualy made the file invisable > again > ,I wasnt able to delete it either