on working on a interactive piece with fairly large and detailed vector graphics imported from Illustrator. it tidied up all the graphics and started organising them into their appropriate symbols. Next time went to open the file again found that Flash couldn?t handle it and returned the memory error message with the irrelevant (for Windows users) Mac OS advice. My machine is relatively high-spec (newish AMD CPU, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD with at least 20Gb free disk space) so it seems to be a problem with Flash, not my box. tried various workarounds and fixes that found via Google, but unfortunately had no luck and my original source file is now unretrievable. Here are some steps that would recommend to work around and mitigate this problem: ------------------------ james wilkins Link Building (http://www.drivenwide.com)