Hi everyone, I just wanted to thank you all so much for your helpful advice and suggestions when I was desperately trying to get my PAF file to work again, when I lost it during an extra download. I tried most of your suggestions, but as the PAF wouldn't open, I couldn't get any further, and finally resorted to System Restore which worked brilliantly. I have XP, and I don't know if it works with all systems, but fortunately when my techie built my computer he set up System Restore to update automatically and I was able to just select a date a few days back to before I created the problem. The genealogical family has done it again. Generous help came from all around the world. Thank you all. Marg Andrews - from Queensland the flooded and cyclone State of Australia.