At 9:16 AM -0500 12/10/04, Mark Des Cotes wrote: >Then by fluke, I was looking in the "Desktop (Mac OS 9)" folder that >appears on my OS X desktop and low and behold there is the file I >had searched hi and low for. maybe you're searching your Home folder and not "Local Disks"? IIRC the OS 9 desktop is not stored in your Home folder, but higher up. If you're using the find field in a Finder window, press the icon in the left of the field to see what's checked. If you're using Command-F, the "full" find, then make sure the names of all your hard drives are checked. AM