OK thanks to the help of you guys I have successfully completed this task.

For anyone else that is interested and may need to perform this task in future here is...

Thanks for the help both of you.

I had already started an import in to a single-file db using the Import and Export wizard, but seems to be taking forever (79000...

george sibbald (1/4/2012)

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I am afraid you cannot use backup\restore to change the number of files. All you can do is change where those files are restored to (a single drive...