"There is insufficient memory. Save the document now."

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"There is insufficient memory. Save the document now."

Hi, I'm not sure what the issue is recently with my iMac but I seem to be seeing that spinning beach ball a lot more recently. Word crashed about five minutes ago and when I opened a new document to start working, I got this message- "There is insufficient memory. Save the document now."

Any idea what's going on? I have some other programs open (MacSpeech Dictate, Mail, iTunes) but my status monitor widget showed nothing out of the ordinary when the previous crash happened.

I've got 4 GB of RAM so I'm not sure why I'm experiencing any issues.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

-Ryan

27" Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 4, 2011 8:43 AM

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rkaufmann87

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Feb 4, 2011 9:05 AM in response to rmmcveigh

Johnny,

I'd recommend opening Activity Monitor and looking to see what is using all of your RAM. Look in the column called *Real Mem* and also take a look at your *Free RAM.* If you see something that is taking up lots of RAM that is probably the issue.

Roger

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rmmcveigh Author

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Feb 4, 2011 9:09 AM in response to rkaufmann87

Hi Roger,

Thanks for this- Upon looking through the Activity Monitor I see that there's a large chunk of RAM being eaten up by MacSpeech (over 600 MB). When that's added to Word and Safari, I'm close to a GB.

I would have thought that 1 of 4 wouldn't be a problem but apparently it is? Anyway, thanks for this.

-Ryan

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rkaufmann87

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Feb 4, 2011 9:11 AM in response to rmmcveigh

Your welcome and thank you for the star.

If you are interested RAM is pretty inexpensive these days, you can upgrade to 12 GB for just over $100. I'd recommend either OWC (www.macsales.com) or Crucial. Both are good vendors that sell high quality products.

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