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>=20
> Here's a bit of a left-field thought: Maybe none of them.
>=20

Not far left at all :)
>=20
> What are you actually doing when you get an exception? Can you
>=20
> plausibly recover? If not - that is, if you're going to abort the
>=20
> whole operation anyway - then save yourself the trouble of writing the
>=20
> try/catch, and just let the exception propagate up (to the console, if
>=20
> nowhere else).
>=20

My first cut of the program did exactly that. Just abort the whole thing, f=
iguring that the disk was full or buggered.

What I ran into was that half way through the process I ended up with a fil=
ename which the FAT32 didn't like. So, my brain-dead idea was to catch thos=
e (and ignore them) and continue on. But then I have to distinguish between=
 a bad filename and "real" errors.

But, you are probably correct if you say I should check the filename first =
:) Is there a module for that?