Low system memory warning

I have been trying to create a photo gallery with Adobe Web Photo Gallery. No matter how many images I try to source I always get a 'low system memory'message, and I cannot display any picture(apart from one!). I have tried sourcing them from a jpg folder, and from iPhoto, but same result.
I have hardly anything stored on the computer, and I have 768 mb RAM. I am not using any other application when using Web Photo Gallery.
What can be the problem?
Cristina

Hi again Cristina --
I wish I had more help to offer, but I'm really at a loss as to what might be causing your problem.
I ran an extensive search throughout the Discussions and didn't find anything and a similar search on the web in general and found only this: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113267 Someone who apparently was experiencing the same problem as you, but whose post in a (non-Apple) Mac OS X forum was never answered unfortunately.
The only thing I still wonder is about,not surprisingly, your system memory, since that's what the error message points to. You wrote that you have 278 MB RAM used and 488 MB RAM free. Were those numbers taken right at the time you got the low system memory message, i.e., right when you were using Adobe Web Photo Gallery. If they were taken at another time they might not be painting an accurate picture of what's happening with your system exactly when you're getting the error message.
The only other thing I can think of is to ask Adobe about this situation and see if they have heard of it and know a solution.
Good luck.
-- JDee
PS. You might also try posting un the Mac OS X 10.3 Panther forum here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=745 on the off chance that this might somehow be an OS-related issue (though I doubt it). AT a minimum, it will expose your question to a whole different set of potential helpers.

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Hi everyone:
Thankyou for all your suggestions.
Sorry, Bill, but both those links give me an error message. I was all set to read them, but they won’t work, unfortunately.
What is meant by ‘page file managed’, sorry? And do you mean ‘hard disk drives’ by HDD, or does it stand for something else in this context? I’m not sure what you mean by how do I have them allocated. Again, apologies for my ignorance. I do have only one HDD, but it is partitioned.
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From: Bill Hunt [email protected]
Sent: Friday, 11 March 2011 2:00 AM
To: rachel jewiss
Subject: Rendering and Low System Memory issues in PE9.
although I will say that this 'low system memory' issue seems to be worst today, as I'm adding more still photos.
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Very frustrating to work with the program this way...:(
Thanks!!

First, is there a red line above your clips on your timeline? If so, you need to render your timeline. Running the program with unrendered video on the timeline can result in out of memory reports.
Also, when you place your video on the timeline, is there a red line above it before you add effects to it? If so, you are not using the correct project preset.
When you start your project, go to Settings and select the correct project settings for you Canon 7D, based on the video format and resolution specs your camera is shooting. Using the correct settings, as I say in my books, will save you having to continually render your work.

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