Dear Neville and friends: Thanks so much to you and everyone for responding. If everything is in my hidden .netscape directory, then I can just save the entire .netscape directory. Right? As for the mail (nsmail), I really don't need it since I usually save any and all important messages to a file and then copy the file to my zip drive and to my storage area online. So, please confirm that indeed this is all I need to do. That is, that after a new install I can automatically copy and OVERWRITE all files in /home/sher/.netscape directory with my saved /home/sher/.netscape directory (from my zip drive). If this is all I need to do, then hooray. Will do so and never have to rebuilt my address book and filters again. Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]