It is possible, although not particularly easy, to genuinely recover deleted files. Check out the following link... especially the article "Bring out your dead": http://www.fish.com/forensics/ It's a pretty cool site regarless. -- John Patton patton66@home.com Get my GnuPG public key: finger john@24.22.215.225 "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Henry David Thoreau