On May 17, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Kevin Willis wrote: > I purchased iDefrag and ran it last night. Everything is in nice > contiguous blocks now. Unfortunately, no improvement importing > movies in iMovie. I guess that was a waste of $33. Live and learn. So now you need to try and find the real problem. Is this going into your internal HD? Anything else connected? How much RAM do you have? Kirk Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France