Saving file takes 2-5 minutes

Question

As I start working on a project, the time it takes to save my file as I'm working suddenly goes from the usual 5 seconds or so to about 2-5 minutes of the spinning beach ball of death. It brings my workflow to a complete halt, and with a deadline rapidly approaching I can't afford to lose this amount of time everytime I want to save my project. I'm growing increasingly frustrated trying to figure out why this is happening.
My scenario is this:
Dual G4 1.25 ghz
Os X 10.4.3
Logic 7.2
I have a session with only a few tracks in use with multiple instances of the EXS sampler and the Space Designer reverb. I looked up some old threads about this, and people were having this problem when using templates that were originally built in Logic 7. I created a brand new template from scratch tonight in 7.2, and I'm still having the problem. Its driving me nuts.

Answer 1

Go into your current projects settings:
Menu / File / Project / Settings
Uncheck the check boxes for 'Copy EXS samples....' and 'Copy Space Designer files....'
Otherwise it seems that it resaves these everytime you hit save, or it rescans things again. With these disabled, things will be much snappier.
Probably leave the 'Copy audio files to project folder', as this will make sure that every audio file you import or drag to your project get copied and you dont mess the originals.