On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 06:06 AM, Gene Steinberg wrote: > If you use a utility that can view and manage invisible files, such as > File Buddy, there is no way you will miss anything. > > Unless you have the time to backup your drive and reformat (or you > have a current backup), I see nothing wrong in just deleting the files > and starting over. Of course you might delete invisible files that are important to OS 9... There are more than 200,000 files on my drive using Jaguar. I wonder if it would be possible to delete all of those without creating problems. Maybe... Of course, the drive in question is already flakey so deletion may not be a good answer while erasing and a new install almost always is. --- Simple Solutions for Simple Minds. Jack Rodgers for President. jackrodgers at earthlink.net http://www.jackrodgers.com