Thanks Marky for that. Will give it a shot. However, XOLOX and the rest of my system runs perfectly, no hang ups, no nasties or glitches at all EXCEPT when a download arrives and the index is rebuilt. When I'm downloading it's fine, when people are uploading it's fine - I'm getting cpu spikes up to 70-80% but they disappear as soon as they show, I've got no problem with xolox at all or the system except at re-build time.

I didn't know about the sub-directory thing. I have a lot of them too (e.g. artist, album name, album name etc) are you saying that the sub-directories aren't accessed? Cos if that's the case I have a lot of re-organising to do.

Happy