SIG'rs... I've got two problems -- one minor and one major. I'll deal with the minor one in this email and address the major one in a separate. I'm a photographer who shoots digital. The media is a SanDisk compact disk. To transfer the pictures files into my desktop or laptop, I copy them via a SanDisk USB card reader. Copying is fine. The glitch is trying to delete them from the disk afterwards under Win2000 OS. I have two desktops running Win98, one laptop with Win98 and one laptop loaded with Win2000. With all three machines that run Win98, deleting the files is a snap -- no problem. I just highlight the files and either click DEL or drag them to the trash bin and the disk is cleaned up ready to go back into the camera. The laptop running Win2000 is a different matter. When I delete the files, they disappear from the folder. But when I put the disk back into the camera, the images are still there as if they've never been erased. The go away sometimes if I leave the disk in the laptop for a couple of minutes after hitting DEL. Waiting is not an option however. This problem also occurs when I load the disk into the laptop via the PCMCIA slot; so it isn't the USB port. Any suggestions? ...Doug Pizac