On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:53 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > The linking together of these files probably happened on your original > drive when you had problems with it. Your backups then backed up the > corrupted data. Yes, that is what I was thinking too. > It's possible that there are other corruptions in your > data (e.g. corrupted files) as well as the files being linked together > like this. Do you still have the backups of your data from before you > had problems with the original drive? Yes, thankfully, so there is no real problem, in that I can selectively replace corrupted files as and when I find them. So there's no panic. Thanks for your help. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================