On 8/15/05 5:58 PM, joshua hough wrote: > HD failure? This wouldn't be discovered in some way by TechTool Pro or > DiskWarrior? Both have been run repeatedly with no ill signs. Also, the > changed modification dates would point to some program directly mangling the > files, not drive decay. Right? Not necessarily. Can you check to see if anything else matches the modification time/date? Any logs written at that time? Finder quit crash log? Any backup or archiving scripts? Anything else that shares the mod date that might also be corrupted?