XP is the OS... the files are split across a ton of subdirectories already...
I'm actually starting to think there's a problem with certain files, however... We create help files for clients using RoboHelp... RoboHelp has Source HTML and then "webhelp" html which is what actually goes to the client... I'm trying to mass maintenance the "source" files... Right now, my program works but you've got to delete the webhelp files first... I figured that (based on the exponential growth in processing time) it was the additional number of files... However, after streamlining the codes I got the following results done 300 4.1904767226e-006 done 600 7.97062280262 done 900 22.3963802662 done 1200 29.9211888662 done 1375 35.3465962853 with the webhelp deleted and done 300 4.1904767226e-006 done 600 7.6259175398 done 900 13.3994678095 still processing 10 minutes later with the webhelp intact Since the system didn't hang sometime after 1375 (and in fact, still hasn't made it there), I can only assume that it hit one of the webhelp files and freaked out... The thing that's really weird is that the files it's hanging on appear to be some of the most basic files in the whole system (small, not alot going on... no hits on the RE search)... So I may just tell the users to delete the webhelp and have robohelp recreate it after they've run the program... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list