> > I am indebted! > > cool. If you do this kind of thing a lot you may find rsync's added > features worthwhile. Rsync makes it very easy and fast to sync a large > directory tree where only some files have changed. Right. I am *sort of* familiar with rsync. I think it's part of the technology that is behind Gentoo's emerge, isn't it? Anyway, my needs right now are more tactical. I don't (yet) see a long term need for doing rsync, but it could happen. The data I'm copying is currently a very large library I've built through purchases and downloads which I use in Windows and is becoming useful under Linux. The Windows box happens to be dual boot, so it was easier for me to use scp, with help from the group here, than deal with Samba between Win ME and Linux. Thanks again for your help, and the help of everyone here. - Mark
