> Not sure but if that doesn't work then I would suspect Filevault and > the new > automatic defragmentation feature in 10.3... I doubt it's the automatic defragmentation feature. From what I've read, this step is only taken if a file is already heavily fragmented *and* smaller than 20MB. FileVault, on the other hand, is something I think best left alone for the time being, or used with great care. BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net