thank you very much for the help guys. I even figured out I needed to put option 'r' in there to copy a directory. Just to verufy what I'm thinking- the dot at the end of the command tells it to copy into your current directory? That is what I thought it did so I issued the command from the directory I wanted it in hey..... whenever there is a recursive option canI put '-r0' to tell it to copy the directory but not descend into the tree or a '-r1' to descend into the tree one level, or '-r?' to descend (whatever number I put) into the tree? ========== Since 22 is open from PC to laptop you can simply scp in reverse: scp 192.168.0.4:Pictures/2009- Move.from.Florida . I'm guessing the path of the pictures and take note of the dot at the end On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Michael Havens wrote: