Hi Steve

Although I am not a Mac user I can hopefully give you some pointers.

At this point I would just like to add that I do not know what level of computer experience you have or the size of your HD, that said lets push on.

First of all, you know that LW is a disk intensive program, it is constantly reading, writing and moving data around and it also causes a lot of fragmentation. Fragmentation, in itself, is not a bad thing but it can look as if you are using more disk space than you are actually using.

Secondly, 700MB is about the size of a one-hour film. I have downloaded files of over 1,000MB. Therefore, LW downloading 700MB or so for a file or several files is nothing new. However, downloading 700MB in five minutes sounds somewhat strange (no matter how fast your connection is), if you were a PC user I would say check your system for malware.

Finally, In order to protect your core system, i.e. main HD, and keep a check on what your copy of LW is doing, I would suggest you buy an external HD. They're cheap enough, will keep LW uploads and downloads away from your core apps and data, and will allow you to monitor what is actually going on.

Hope this helps.


UK Bob