There is something odd about space characters in that line as it arrived here by email. Delete one of any double spaces. In Win 8.1, I found the batch file was denied access to large areas of the drive. Useful idea, though. Anyone who knows batch language could use %1 instead of hard-coding the drive letter so that the drive could be added to the command line. This would save editing. Vince. ======================================== Message Received: Mar 18 2014, 09:34 AM From: "Colin How" To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [access-uk] Re: running out of disc space on my D drive? Greetings, Thanks for this John, I would also find it useful. I presume one can change the drive and file size parameters in the one line. I tried running the line you gave in a previous message and had the same error as Henry, unsure exactly what it did not like because there proved to be no text between the apostrophes in the error message. -- To err is human. To really screw things up, you need a computer. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq