I tried your first suggestion of changing to the directory before running and everything worked fine, until I tried to sync with emplode and it failed at the checking media stage (just said media error). it was attempting to do one of the longer checks because I'd reached the 20 mounts limit. Panic set in, and I deleted the emptriv files along will all directories on drive0 that I had created and tried the sync again, everything worked OK. Any ideas why the sync failed? I tried to sync a few times before I deleted emptriv, and rebooted empeg and PC, no luck. Having thought about it I wondered if it failed just because a program was running on drive0, but yet again I'm probably completely wrong.

Thanks...Mark.