bluetone: Your tale of woe warmed my heart, even as I was stricken by your anguish.[LOL] Your case was, by far, the worst. You had a client waiting in the wings. In the morning. Yet, the 'far too many items' scarcely applies here. There is nothing more in the model than what you can see. Still, the "AAARRRRRRGGHHHHH...!!" does ring a familiar bell.

Ah well, I guess that, large or small file, it's just Carrara. I assume, from various comments, that C. is relatively new, and I guess there is much to iron out. And I must say that since what we are building on the screen is nothing more than a matrix of electro-static charges reading '1' and '0', it's amazing that anything can happen right.

Your parting shot is dead-on: Murphy is always there. I'd go so far as to say:MURPHY RULES!

BTW, did you know that Murphy really existed? He's a real person?