At 01:55 +0200 25/2/04, Ray M wrote: >Hello trevor, I had the exact same thing under jaguar... I took my computer >to the apple repair shop... They diagnosed the problem as beeing the hard >disk that was damaged! I had it replaced in no time... Now everything is >back to normal. Ray - thank you for your words of encouragement..... :-) I do hope that it is just something to do with temporary files that have disappeared now after several restarts, rather than a hardware issue. My partition is now showing 1.72 Gb free, which is "normal" and everything is fine for the moment. But I will keep a close eye on this. T.