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Well, Jens can probably help you more with what Squeak is trying to tell you with that message.  I'm not sure it's a disk space problem...the message would probably say something about disk space rather than memory.  When a program talks about being low on memory, it is usually refering to RAM (random access memory) which is supplied by memory chips on the computer's circuit boards. 

You might be low on RAM if you have a lot of programs all running at the same time.  Each running program takes a portion of the available RAM and you can run out if you try and have too many running at one time. 

Sometimes it may not look like you are running a lot of programs but in fact you are, particularly if some programs are not shutting down properly.  You may have to reboot your computer to clean up any of these "orphaned processes" that didn't shut down properly and return the memory they were using.  Try rebooting your computer and see if Scratch keeps giving you the message.

Usually there is a system performance monitor program that you can run that can give you an idea of how much memory is being used and by which programs.  On my PC I can get to it by doing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and selecting Task Manager which has a Performance tab in it.

Hi bosox397,

Thanks for reporting this!
the "low memory" warning you're seeing can have several causes. One used to be a simple bug in the pen size block in Scratch versions pre-1.3.1 which triggered that warning whenever you set a sprite's pen size to something very big (bigger that 64.000). We eliminated this bug in the current release, so you might want to check if you have the current version installed (sometimes that seems not to be so easy to tell as these versions use different folders and just installing 1.3.1 over 1.3 doesn't work every time, so please check the "about" dialog box to find out if you're really using 1.3.1).

If this doesn't solve your problem I'd be very interested to learn more about the circumstances, under which your memory runs low.

bosox397 wrote:

Actually, I do not use the pen block at all. The project I was using is my newest one which I just released, Megaman Run, found in my signature. However, after further investigation, I found that that warning message only came up when I tried to import an image from a certain site. Then when I went to a different site and imported the image, everything was fine. Any reasons?

The image may be stored at different resolutions on the different sites.  Or different color depths.  Either of those can have a big impact on image size which may be triggering the Memory Low error.  I suppose the image could even be stored in different file formats so Scratch would have to run different translators to import them.