Thanks Dieter, Paul and P.T, Although Dieter did give me the correct explanation a few mails ago, I did not realise at that time that the Directory View folders in the portal_skins are called just that (I confused it with LocalFS folders) - thanks Paul for pointing that out and telling me exactly where to look - I'm probably at the point where I know just about enough of CMF to be dangerous! Dieter (and Chris!), once again, sorry for the HTML spew, M$ Outlook has a mind of it's own, and will either send HTML or two messages, one HTML and one Text, I am now using Outlook Express to write mails to news groups (I can't uninstall Outlook - company policy) and hope it is better behaved. Anyway, my problem is solved, so now I can go and be the hero on the "Bug in FileDirectoryView with INSTANCE_HOME on win?" thread I have just noticed ;) Thanks again Etienne