Sean - I'll try to ask her to find the sony software but if she can't even keep a backup of data not certain if she'll have a dedicated location for her software......
Have now set all the permissions which cured the access problems, have tried dipping into each of the folders checking first that the content size is reasonable but no luck yet.
Saab - I'm familiar with dir and dir/p in dos but have never searched for a particular file this way so don't know where to start with that one...... Can you even run a search in dos on a usb drive? I know it does have a drive letter but somehow thought it had to be in the bios as a device to be seen by dos. I'm more'n likely completely wrong. Was once before - 1932 I think it was...... That's right corrie was on.......
