Hi Gavin Many thanks for your assistance Gavin....I had not realised they were image files, and was able to open them once they were treated as such. Also wish to congratulate you on your excellent website/database on Immigrant Shipping to New Zealand 1835 -1910 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shipstonz I had a look at it today and have bookmarked it for future reference. bibi norma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin W Petrie" <gavinwp@ihug.co.nz> To: <petrie-scotland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [PETRIE-SCOTLAND] Annette Pringle & Stephen Baker - Petrie Website File Cabinet > Hello Norma and others > > The files in questions are image files and open satisfactorily in an > image viewing program like 'Irfanview'. One census image per file. The > files I have looked are:- > > 1891Petrie1 > 1901Petrie1 > 1901Petrie2 > 1901Petrie3 > 1901Petrie4 > > I hope you find this useful. > > Regards > Gavin > > > Norma Thain wrote: >> Hi Annette, >> I have checked in the Website File Cabinet and have found the same >> problem >> as you, but only with the Census details that Stephen (Baker) uploaded >> in >> Feb 04....my 'puter does not recognise these files either, and I expect >> others will have the same problem. >> --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0639-0, 25/09/2006 Tested on: 28/09/2006 00:17:56 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com