On 31.08.2006, at 04:49, Blair Fisher wrote: > My personal experience has also been that getting low on hard disk > space > creates major problems. I have also heard others say the same thing. recently I was copying a large video to my drive and filled up the drive to the brim. Address Book, iCal, FileMaker pro and many other programs that don't ask you to save suddenly went all wacko -- but since I freed up space and never restarted, I only realized that some of these had gone weird after two days (when FileMaker forgot a long text I typed into a database...:( so really: keep an eye on it. Dataloss is imminent if you fill up your drive. Never ever get to 0. make sure you always have 10% of your drive free (because Maurits, I think it's 10%, not 10Gigs you should leave available...) you will lead a happier life... And: by all means: backup your work regularly! I just went through a restore process of my Address Book, after a .mac sync cleared everything (first on my Mac, then on the server. GOod Thing I am using Backup...!) kai -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- canine_at_waf80_dot_de good night europe. http://kainiggemann.de <your name here> ---------------------------------------------------------------------