>>>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, "David" == David Cole wrote: David> I tried copying photos from an album David> in the Finder as described (by Option dragging the symlinks David> as described). but I got a folder full of symlinks, not files David> (these are "aliases" to this old Mac dog). I'm still reluctant David> to get into Terminal mode, preferring the GUI, so forgive David> me for not trying that solution. Any thoughts on what I'm David> missing? Thanks again for the great feedback on this forum. Sorry, I'll need to get get home to test this with GUI in front of the Mac. I'm rather a UNIX CLI person, so I actually haven't tried this in Finder... my apologies May be "Select All (Cmd-A)"-> "Copy " ... switch to folder ... "Paste" will work? --Dmytro -- Dmytro Koval'ov http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~as9d-kvlv http://yarylo.sytes.net GPG keyID 215DDFF7 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 215DDFF7