I got myself into another fine mess. I copied a fat32 media folder to my desktop but I found out when I update that folder in Windows it doesn't update that desktop folder {my shortsightedness}. I deleted the desktop folder and put into the 'trash' folder. I am unable to empty the trash totally (only a folder with .jpeg's now exits) because I don't have 'persmission'. "/home/mac/....ol0348.jpg" cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent folder. Because it is a fat32 windows directory where do I get the permission and if not that where is the 'trash' folder located in Linux? Anytime I now need to empty the trash folder of discarded files I will always have to wade through the .jpeg's one at a time. Your help is appricated, Edward J. McSheehy (Mac) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/