Well, with files under 2 gig it gives me accurate bytecount... if you notice, I use use File::stat; which allows me to referecne by name and printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%d]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size(); is referenceing that element of the list by name... the problem only seems to occur on a file that's larger than 2 gigs...

scratch that changed     printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%d]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size(); to say     printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%s]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size(); and it started working... printf was looking for an integer for the filesize... and when the number it was getting was too big it just turned it into a -1... all fixed, I just turned it into a string since I'm not actually doing any math functions on it.