sounds great. I am waiting for a new hd to be installed, and backed up my runtime ready, didn't even think of zipping it and it took ages and 8 or 9 cds. that's without textures that are not in runtime. Never thought of zipping it. will remember that next time. I too am a great believer in a format every so often. that's why I will not ghost my drive for this changeover.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."