I have not done an off line defrag on this server yet but I need desperately to get the other users off of the 5.5 server. they are not playing nicely together. However at the current rate of expansion cannot afford to move them if the database is going to be twice as big as it was on the 5.5 server. Especially since we now have the priv1.stm that is nearly as big as the database itself. I cannot see why this is like this. There has to be something else going on in there. Can I configure Exchange to write the transaction logs to another server? Byron