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Yea, forgot about that. Real UNIX files dont have spaces, they're just looooooooooong ;) Thanks for catching that.

My PB is offline at the moment but tcl, tk & expect compiled and work fine w/o any difficulty.

Yes, you changed the UID but never changed ownership of the existing files. It's alot faster to use xargs instead of the -exec option to 'find'. find / -user 501 |xargs chown username Although, in reality, 99+% of the files owned by 501 will be in the /Users/<old username> directory so...

It does neither of the things you describe but it APPEARS to do #1. What it does in reality is setup a pipeline so that the gzip binary is transparently called and the final output is sent to the final destination. It is equiv to "tar cvf - <directory> | gzip -c </destination/tarball.tar.gz>