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Robert, A few things. ARC attempts to write the files to where ever your current directory is (where you are logged in at the time you give the ARC command). There is no problem downloading to an external drive (I do it all the time), but you have to let ARC know exactly where the files are that you want it to look at. The clue to what may have gone wrong is that you couldn't delete the file you downloaded. That means that you probably wern't giving a proper file name specification. If you are logged onto drive 0, and download a program to drive 1, you must include the full path DF1:FILENAME.ARC when you download it. When you go to use ARC to extract the files, you should change directory to the external drive CD DF1: You should also have ARC in your C directory of the disk you booted up the Amiga with. That is where all the system commands are located and that is where the Amiga looks for command files if it can't find them in your current directory. Once you have changed to DF1:, you simply type ARC X FILENAME and the files will be extracted 1 at a time. The important point is that if you are logged onto different drive (say you stayed logged onto drive 0), you must then specify the full path to ARC for where to find the file such as ARC X DF1:FILENAME and be aware that it will write the files extracted to drive 0, not to drive 1. Don