Wow I put time machine to the test! Half way through a flight home from San Francisco my hard-drive failed. Took the computer to Mostly Digital on Monday late afternoon they called Wednesday that the warranty repair was complete. I picked it up yesterday afternoon, got home around 10:00 p.m. started a Time Machine restore in the morning it was back to Dec 30 10 p.m. state. My biggest worry was that I had wasted an activation from Adobe for my Creative Suite but the restoration had the program still activated. I am glad that I set up Time Machine and that it worked as advertised. Gerhard gerhardk@xxxxxxx --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>