hope this helps. I wanted to save data to a file everytime i ran through a form. The only issue was save to file would over write everything in the file. So what i did was this. 1. save data to list > add item to list 2. open file, save the files data to a list. >add list to list ->list from file 3. merge the two lists >add list to list 4.save data to orignial file >save to file http://ocletsride.com/images/getthoPush.JPG done. I know there are many ways to get this done, but this was my simplest way of doing it.