Ok..I'll copy your code and give it a twirl next week or whenever I get my drive back.

Time..it takes only a minuite or two at most to download an mp3 file (Sympatico High Speed coupled with a fast PC)...where it hurt was in the fact that I had converted all the songs I thought good from my collection of over 200 cd's and that takes a lot of time to flip flop the CD and then convert from wav to mp3 as 1000 wavs would be more than my 20 G drive would hold. Then, you have to swich back to wav format if you want to make a compilation of varius artist playable on cd players, which incidentally was the plan.

I back up most stuff with the help of my CD Burner, but the mp3 folder was over 3 Gigs in size so I had to leave it out.

As they say stuff happens...I'm still alive and well and can't see any reason why I can't get it all back in due time.

Thanks,
Later,
Wayne