Col Paterson wrote: > Thanks Cheryl, I've tried that but as soon as I close the Dialogue box re > another programme might be using it, it immediately opens PAF 5. I have > opened the file in Notepad but it tells me nothing of importance. Hmmm ... I just deleted a .pal file with the .paf file that writes to it open. I opened Windows EXPLORER. Used the FIND feature to find .pal files. Cursored over each one it found, RIGHT CLICK, selected DELETE. Message popped up asking if I were SURE I wanted to do that, I said yeah, and it vanished. However, if you can open it in Notepad, do a select-all, hit dele and save. /Should/ work, does for me at least. If neither of those do it, I dunno. Cheryl

Rollei (in Australia) Researching: LITTLE, Hibbard, Labies, Harmegnies, Gilbert, Bickford, Lee (and a few others) Simple, Drop to DOS , locate the file and type DEL 'file name.' without the quotes.