> Do you have journaling turned off on your audio drive? That seemed to fix the problem, thanks a lot. That journal thing, is it similar to disk fragmentation in Windows, just in (almost) realtime. The arguments for using it seem about the same. Have any of you ever had problems with disabling it, I have all my samples on the audio drive so it would be a PITA to reinstall those. I still have all the CDs and DVDs but we´re talking 100s of GBs. I will post a question about which firewire drive to buy for my G5 PCI-X 2.3 in two minutes because I just realized that I have to have a backup drive. PS I do back up all my studio projects but the samples....not so much!!!