According to Obrecht, Jerry A: >Btw, for future reference, what size is your hard drive, and how >many gigus bytes are on it? > >Jerry Hi jerry, let's pretend i didn't have 25%+ free, meaning unassigned, allocation block 'space'... How does un-assigning an address in memory, involve 'extra' drive space? maybe you're thinking in terms of copying from drive to drive, or between partitions. 'Taking out the trash' is a metaphor. Nothing 'goes' anywhere. ~flipper