Hello Jane, there are quite a few variables to consider; can you provide more details as to the specific operation you're attempting?

It sounds like you are trying to get around filesystem enumeration - which in general means a saveset recovery. This in turn means you will recover the entire saveset (or at least, read the entire saveset).

Do you want to recover the whole saveset, or for example, a single directory within the saveset?

Do you want to recover to the same or a different host?

The same or different path?

Overwriting files, renaming, or skipping?

Essentially your recover command should really be run on the target host something like:

recover -i[y|n|r] [-d (redirect path)] [-R (hostname... no need if run on target host, which is preferred)] -S (ssid - get this from NMC or mminfo) [internal path of saveset if full saveset not desired]

This disallows any sort of comprehensive browsing but also circumvents tedious file list walking - which sounds like what you're trying to avoid.

Please clarify if I've missing anything and test this first on a redirected path (-d) with a simple saveset.

Cheers, James.

May be you just want to try the following on the server which owned the files:

recover [-d "new path"] -t "browsetime" -a "path you want to recover"

Peter