Hi, Mary's suggestion giving read only access to files in a users area would not hit the db and so is a possibility. The big load is listing files which have been allocated by a user whoc is partof a syndicate. We can certainly think about Mary's suggestion and see what we come up with ... Cheers Graham Brian Smart wrote: > > Hello All, > > My request was for a list of files that have been uploaded but NOT yet > incorporated in the main database. i.e. not as Mary Muir has interpreted. > Any way that the information can be listed including as Mary suggests would > be OK. > > Mary Muir said: > > "Currently you have to be a mind reader and know how your > syndicate member names the file:) (which isn't always totally logical)" > > Regarding choice of file name, why are you not specifying the way the files > should be named? One of my allocations has about 4000 individual files, if > they were named by syndicate members in a random way it would be impossible > to manage. > > Regards > > Brian Smart > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp