I appreciate your response because I was flat out confused by this action. Let me respond to your first question; I have never had this happen before, nor have I had it happen since (even though it has not been long since it did happen). I have stilled used the SPOOLF command (with caution) since the data loss, but the incident has not repeated itself. I did not see any error warning message, but I will state that I was not exactly paying attention when the files disappeared, I was mainly in a state of shock. My printer was a serial printer and the files were in a ready state for printing and the outfence of the printer was low enough for the files to be printed during the night, I just ran out of paper before they all printed. I did leave the print queue empty because the small and medium files were moved to a faster printer and large files were just deferred, and then they disappeared. I hope this answers all of your questions. I don't really expect to have an answer of where these files disappeared to. I just wanted to pose the questions to the majority of users who have more knowledge than I do, and to see if there was a quick and dirty answer. I will keep using the SPOOLF command, under suspicion, and see if it ever happens again. Thanks for your help and time..... JoeE