Doug McNutt wrote: >Given that textual data it would be fairly easy to create a shell or >perl script that would rename the files by adding 000_, 001_, 002_ >etc. to the file names. There are tons of shareware programs that do this already. No need to write your own. I personally favor R-name but there is also A Better Finder Rename and several others, all available at versiontracker.com. Daloy ----------------------