In a message dated 4/14/04 3:27:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davist@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: If you want to zip your list and send to me, I can remove the characters for you. Terry I may have it Terry. Buffer overload maybe......... 3000 files seems to overload the system. Roughly 400 files max according to the Help file. I'll try it again using a smaller load. Is the only way to save the renamed files using the batch option? When I reloaded the thing and just added the same files I sent you the list came up without the numbers but I couldn't find a way to Save those files except running the batch thingee ??? Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough .Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)