Ok I found it; it was in shared documents and was named "manual recording***.dvr-ms" which really isn't all that self-evident it seems to me. It is just that the files are so large that I wished to keep an eye on them even though the thing came with a 250GB and a portable 160GB. "A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through." Robert Hunter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/