Andrew Swanson said: >I'd like to see if other people agree with my conclusion here. >These are the symptoms: >1) A couple of times lately, I've gotten the "Low on Memory" dialog. >The one that ask you to choose running applications to force quit and >free up virtual memory. The thing is, at the same time that this is >happening, the boot drive claims to have over 8GB free. How big is your hard drive? Is it close to 80% full, or has it ever been close to 80% full? See: http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html Item #5 and Note #2 Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html