I finally got it to read the files. Operator error caused by a prompt in the Force Quit menu that said “program not responding.” It said both FCP and the transfer pgm were not responding and I believed it. This was after about 20 min. Went to the jon and a few minutes later there were the files. Maybe that is the secrete. Thanks for the info on the 2GB files. There were several big files with long sound bites and that may have caused the problem.