Low on memory -- much left to do

it says i have less than one 600 megabytes left but i have much more to do with the film.
i have deleted other films i was working on but to not recover more memory when i did.
i could split the movie in two and work on it in two pieces but how would i do that and where would i set aside the half i'm working on later.
what can i do that i might continue working on the piece and not lose anything i've already done?!?!!?!!!?!!!!?!!!!!
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Hi rebeka - Sue's advice to buy an external drive is very sound! We have nearly all had to do that, and prices are dropping all the time.
Depending on how much editing has already been done to your projects, you can Share them back to dv tape, and re-import them when you have the space. Any transitions, titles, and effects already included will of course be embedded in the video, but unlinked clips with no effects will be re-imported unchanged. Quality is not affected, and one bonus is that unused portions of clips are no longer retained, thus saving on space.
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> Hi all,
>
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highlighted on
> these
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>
>
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=18
> 9&threadid=1087274
>
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> 9&threadid=820046
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=12&catid=18
> 9&threadid=1145778
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> ...but as yet, no solution.
>
> I have a new Dell Inspiron 9400 E1705 with 2GB of RAM
running Dreamweaver
> v8.0.2 that throws the error "Your system is low on
memory" (as shown in
> those
> other posts) when clearly I have a stack of free memory.
>
> I can make this error occur even when I'm running no
other apps. No other
> application gives me memory errors, including Fireworks
when it's stacked
> to
> the gills with big PNGs. Just Dreamweaver, and, it
seems, almost always
> when
> working on CSS documents.
>
> The other threads have been relatively exhaustive on
what's occurring, so
> I
> need not repeat much of it, but this error message is
annoying the hell
> out of
> me. After reading the other posts, I'm fairly convinced
this is a
> Dreamweaver
> bug.
>
> What do you think?
>
> I'd like not to get the standard plethora of "IS YOUR
VIRUS SOFTWARE DOING
> REALTIME PROTECTION" and "HAVE YOU GOT LOTS OF OTHER
THINGS OPEN" etc --
> I've
> been using Dreamweaver for years and years and I'm not a
n00b, so I
> wouldn't be
> posting here if I didn't think this was something bigger
than just my PC.
>
> I suspect, from reading the other threads, that there
might be a problem
> related to working on CSS files (particularly large
ones) combined with
> perhaps
> 2GB of RAM (because this .problem never happened on my
much lower-specced
> previous machine).
>
> Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably
constructive, though humorous
> wouldn't go astray... ;-)
>
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