Hi again, I may be dense but when I put the portable preferences on my drive and then put it on my own mac nothing seemed to happen differently. Is this because the way it would work is putting in to another mac would cause the preferences to work and the prompt as to whether I wanted to use this drive? thanks. ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx