Dianne, Those are backup files. To get to them in Nautilus, browse to the folder they're in (for example /home/Dianne/Documents/ ) and press Ctrl + H. This shows hidden files and folders. From there, you can just delete the files,then press ctrl + H again to hide hidden files and folders. If you don't hide them again, you'll find a lot of extra (configuration) folders in your Home directory. Hope that helps! <div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/1 Dianne Reuby <<a href="mailto:pramclub@yahoo.co.uk">pramclub@yahoo.co.uk</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm finding more and more files that have duplicates - presumably backup files, as they have a tilde in the file name. For example, index.html and index.htm~ They don't show in Nautilus, but they do show in dialogue boxes such as "open file", and in programs such as Filezilla. I'm running 8.10, I've been looking at both OS and program preferences, but I can't solve this. It only seems to have started recently, but it is a pain especially if I want to select a block of files. Any advice welcome - thanks! Dianne -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- Simon Wears MunkyJunky@Gmail.com <a href="http://MunkyJunky.com">http://MunkyJunky.com</a> | <a href="http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky">http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky</a> MunkyJunky on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>