That's just an optical illusion. Sometimes I notice the dos box pop up quicker too, I'm not sure what magic Cheff uses, but he certainly made it annoying to do things like this. No, the problem comes because you are embedding the namespace in the save file, but only one namespace per file. Since each list requires it's own namespace, it predicates 4 files. Also remember that each line can only be 2K long. There might be times when you exceed this and will cause 2 writes. Basically the DOS prompt sucks ass but it's the only thing Cheff left us with. My new file system will fix everything and avoid all the annoyances. My subs are fine, yours are fine, it just needs another sub to bring everything together. In the mean time, just save each list to different files.