I am trying to Live Trace a scanned in image

and even when I am doing the most simple trace the program will freeze at the same time each time I am tracing it. I am wondering if the image is too large or there are too many parts in it to trace at once. Also I have been looking up that it might be the disk space or my Macs RAM? I don't even know how to deal with that.
Thanks

Tell us about the specs on your computer what you have set as the scratch disk, you'll find that out in the preferences under the Illustrator menu, what OS wht pocessor speed, how much RAM ho many hard drives is it a tower or a laptop?
As much as you can tell us.

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