Jeri -

My last post was all addressed specifically to "999."

Consider the common expression "One *** short of a ###," that has numerous variations, with most variations occasionally applicable to a number of people here.

To make it specific to this particular one:

k = thousand is pretty well known

k-1 = 999

Since he knows how to see what files he has he apparently knows that Windows Explorer is how you show them, one would think (?).

Related to the complaint about duplicate files, in older Windows versions if you selected a file or a group of files and attempted to "drag and drop" them somewhere else, losing your grip on the mouse button so that they "dropped" back into the same place would make a copy of each of them, identified by a copy number ((2), (3), etc) tacked onto the filename. I found copies up to (7) on one person's machine due to this behavior. (I've called it "twitchy finger syndrome" in her honor.)

So far as I've seen this particular DragNDrop behavior doesn't appear in Win7, but if the duplicates have a number in parentheses on some of them this is probably the mostly likely cause.

You can get the same "numbered copies" result if you Copy (Ctl-C) from one folder and Paste (Ctl-V) into a different folder where files with the same names already exist, but you should be asked whether you want to replace the existing one in the target folder, or copy and keep both copies (which will number the new copy), or skip the file.

John