> I used TRAMP for a while, but I made the switch to sshfs. It's behaved a > lot better for me. I'd recommend looking into that unless you're married > to TRAMP for some reason. Thanks for the info, I'll look into this. I did try sshfs a long time ago, before I tried tramp, as its more useful than tramp. At that time it did not work that well for me, and tramp was better. However, that was a long time ago and perhaps things have changed ? cheers Chris