A good idea Randy, but how do you deal with applications that trash files on their own? How can you intervene? BTW, that was Data Recycler, not Rescue I mentioned earlier (thanks Eddie for correcting me). Data Rescue never did rescue any of my lost files. Files that were trashed by an application, not by me. Now I always go through the trash before I empty it. Tut Randy B. Singer said: > Or you could just create a "pre-trash" folder, and not transfer things in > it to the trash until they have aged sufficiently to be safe to trash.