According to Loren Schooley: >I use locate for some types of searches. ~Quick~. >And the search window in the respective directories work great (jag+ only) > >As far as the sluggishness of OSX, I had that problem. My machine was wading >through MUD, I was about to trade it for something that performed better, >like crack, or buy a Dell, or anything that could go plus+ 30 MPH on the >I-Super-Highway, but, then---- I have just deep zero'd out my HDD, and >reinstalled. Ahhhhh-a brand new machine! It flies! See, when I upgraded from >Classic on this HDD, I never Zeroed it, just plain formatted, and then I had >20 gig of data on a 20gig HDD, and that was two years ago. Now I am fine. Thanks Loren, I am basically dreaming of a 120 GB external drive in order to do just that, alas, I am in the newspaper biz... which, as far as I can tell, is why one can buy whiskey by the glass. [I don't drink, just a personal figure of speech]. Zeroing-out my internal drive sounds terrific....someday. ~flipper