In a message dated 4/14/04 1:04:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davist@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: OK, try a file renamer such as: http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10135890.html?tag=lst-0-2 Terry A renamer isn't going to work very well to remove characters. I don't want to rename them I just want to remove the leading seven characters from each file. A renamer wants to know the name of the file to rename and the name to rename it too ? With 3000 files that might take awhile <g> I've atached a few of the links in a Zip file........ any other ideas would be appreciated.