Don´t worry, it's OK. I thought it could be purchased somewhere. I know the problems to manage those big files, it's very time consuming and worst of all, often it can result quite frustrating.

Also, I do not speak German well enough ....

The files caome from a person on the internet via email. I was able to download these files onto my computer but when I tried to upload attachments that were smaller, the internet conection timed out. Needless to say thatI tried several times and it gets frustrating. I'm trying ot translate these files into eng. and it's slow because although I understand the pronunciation to written sounds, his diction is sometimes not 100% and I'm having a devil of a time with this and often the comment is something like a paraphase of the concept, "Keep the air going even through this decrescendo!" I have about the first three minutes of ~55 done.

I understand. A. Nicolet is swiss and it could be that he is speaking Swiss and not "Hoch Deutsch". But it would be difficult to translate in any case. I have my daughter coming home for Christmas; she's been living in Germany since many years(right now she is far more german than spanish) and could help with translating some parts, were it possible to get a hand on partial files.

I suppose you have already tried zipping the files. But too big files are often rejected by the Email servers. One idea: I could give you access to a WEB page I have and upload it by FTP, which is more adequate for big files than Email protocols. Then I could download them by the opposite procedure.

Well, everytime I come to this thread, orginally posted by Tim, I am more and more impressed with the volume and quality of content.

Although others have contributed and helped, I'm certainly impressed with the lovely repartee (and great info) provided by Bilbo and jose_luis.

I certainly can't thank all of you, enough. I've learned so much, as other members have.

Wish all of you a wonderful Holiday --- and a great 2008!

Keep up the good work!

Best regards to all: Jim

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TIM: hope you've learned a lot from this very important thread! You should jump in, once in awhile, to let us know if all of your questions were answered!