When I'm handling large files in PS6 with W2K, I'm watching the scratch disk size, which shows the current usage against the amount of RAM I have allocated to PS something like 650/1270, then with a move that takes me up to the 1270 allocation for the programme the computer baulks for a moment, starts writing to scratch disk as I've exceeded my RAM I presume, and then once that is done, it comes back saying: 1290/1030. In other words the memory allocation to PS has dropped from 1270 to 1030 (to 75% approx from the 90% I'd given it) Is this the W2K virtual memory grabbing back RAM? or something else? if so, would it help things to turn it off (and how do I do that?) or is it best left to do its thing? I have 1.5GB RAM, though I'm going up to 2 Gb soon. paul
