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Before clicking on the scene, move your mouse pointer to the file and read the info tab to see how big the scene is. They will be somewhere in the 9 to 30 megabytes, depending on what you have in that scene. If you have a great deal of props included, try minimizing them by removing some and only keeping what you will see in that scene.

I only load into a scene what will be seen during a render and this keeps my loading and renderig times down significantly.

Thnx, I try to do the same thing. I should have saved the file by a different name to compare the two. However, the file is only 18.3 mb. I rarely render scenes much over that. However, I have rendered some as large as 56 mb. Those are rare, and usually have multiple figures in them. The scene I rendered had one female figure and her clothes, and one rock, a bundle of plants, and a couple of cattails and about 6 lights. It was pretty simple, the reflections would have been the only thing that would have added difficulty to the scene; however, it still rendered in about a half an hour the first time with no optimization. *Shrugs, oh well, thanks for the suggestions. I might be wasting people's time, although I figured if others had experienced something similar, they might have had a solution to the problem.