# Low memory?!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833 "2006-04-24T21:52:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@slinkyart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slinkyart)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/1 "2006-04-24T21:52:24Z")
Hey guys! Okay, I’m getting really pissed! I have my Flash file that I created and saved and everything was fine. Now when I go to try to open up my Flash file, I get an error that says “Could not open one or more scenes probably because of low memory. To increase available memory, close open documents.”
Well, Flash is the only application that I have open and it’s giving me that errors! How do I allocate more memory to Flash? Or can I do that? Or does someone have a fix for this error because I really need to get this project finished!!
I have an iMac by the way…a new one
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/2 "2006-04-24T21:53:50Z")
would you like to send the file to me? I can compress it for you.
\_Michael
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### Author:  [@slinkyart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slinkyart)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/3 "2006-04-24T21:56:02Z")
> [@MichaelxxOA](#):
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> would you like to send the file to me? I can compress it for you.
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> \_Michael
Hey Michael, Compress it how? I still need to edit it…will I still be able to do that? Or is there a way that I can compress it. The file is 48MB 😮
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### Author:  [@MichaelxxOA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MichaelxxOA)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/4 "2006-04-24T21:57:59Z")
ouch… you can save and compress within the ide… and it is still plenty editable.
Search online for Flash File Bloat, it’s a rather well-known problem.
TakeCare
\_Michael
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### Author:  [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/5 "2006-04-24T21:58:20Z")
Are there programs running in your task manager that you think are closed?
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### Author:  [@slinkyart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slinkyart)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/6 "2006-04-24T22:00:41Z")
> [@lunatic](#):
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> Are there programs running in your task manager that you think are closed?
I don’t think so…I turned my Mac on, opened Flash and tried to open my file and I encountered the error ☹
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### Author:  [@GPP](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GPP)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/7 "2006-04-24T22:30:54Z")
Get more memory :thumb:
Also check in your process list to check for anything unusual or taking more memory than needed.
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### Author:  [@slinkyart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slinkyart)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/8 "2006-04-25T13:07:48Z")
Yeah…looks like I need to upgrade my memory pretty badly…especially running the programs I need to run!
Thanks for you help guys 🙂
> [@Crayon-Inc](#):
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> Get more memory :thumb:
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> Also check in your process list to check for anything unusual or taking more memory than needed.
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### Author:  [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/low-memory/186833/9 "2006-04-25T13:43:32Z")
How much do you have? IIRC, an open document/file/movie/whatever usually occupies three-times its uncompressed size in RAM. That is, a 10mb uncompressed BMP would occupy 30mb of RAM when opened in Photoshop… I think.
So yeah… is your FLA file more than 100mb? Even if you run out of RAM, it should overflow into your hard-disk’s swap memory.
Nonetheless, OS X is supposed to have superb memory-management…
Moral of the story: I have no idea.
Got the latest patches from Macromedia?