Thanks Arjan, I guess my "gut feeling" is that I shouldn't have done the upgrade over Jaguar. Somethings just don't seem to be working right, off and on. I have the 60 GB drive with 15 Gb free. I guess I just don't want to face the music, meaning I don't want to do a total re install of all my stuff. But that seems where I am headed. The time is coming soon for that. Seems I am the only one having problems with my tibook on this list :-) oh well. thanks for the suggestions, cheers, tim On Feb 15, 2004, at 10:24 AM, arjan.bos at icu.nl wrote: > > One other thing you might want to look into is the amount of free > space on your drive. If it is too full, then OS X, as many other > *nix-en, has problems allocating enough free space for the file. If > the allocation fails then the file thats written will become corrupt. > Since preference files are read and written very often, these files > are your first sign of trouble. > > As a rule of thumb, keep 10%-20% of your partitions capacity empty. > > HTH, but as always YMMV > > Arjan > tim.molnar Digital Tao http://www.digitaltao.ca Victoria: 250.721.3224 (currently) Regina: 306.585.3666 Cell: 250.661.6426 tam at em.ca