On Dec 7, 2003, at 9:16 PM, patdart wrote: > No, I'm not new, just really dumb. Most of us are too polite to point that out... :) > I've had a Mac since 1992. Just have never had a problem like > this...and can't figure out how it happened...and I do the support for > the two Macs I know of in my small area...can you imagine that? How did you make the movie? I just exported one clip from iMovie and it went from 73 Megs to 1 Meg (email format). This is a fully contained movie. If I open that in Quicktime and then do a Save As, then the option to create the pointer file shows up and this may cause problems. Second, is the file that you are trying to open an Alias file? Maybe you created an alias and stored that somewhere and then deleted the original. Do a Command I on the file and see what it says. Anyway, check the trash...and do a Find in the finder and see if you can find it by name. The missing copy MIGHT show up. --- Does the world record for slowness go to the SprintPCS.com site. The manage page downloads 202 objects and takes minutes. I gave up and thought about trying Verizon....