Thanks for suggestions. I copied a new system and finder into my system folder and all is well. I have Memory Mapper and will track down Watcher. I still want to know what happened. Though I hope not to see the problem again. Arthur > Subject: Re: [FB] XFB - OS using mucho Memory > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 10:12:46 -0400 > From: Michael S Kluskens <mkluskens@...> > To: futurebasic@... > Get hold of two programs: Memory Mapper 1.5 & Process Watcher 3.2, > both work on Mac OS 9.1 as well as earlier OS's and of course 8.6 > which I ran forever it seems. >