Judy, Nothing I can think of. I think you're just getting a lot of scanned images lately and it's a run of bad luck. Try opening a file from your hard drive that you know worked in the past. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Jones To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 15:09 Subject: Adobe's "alert empty document" message. Greetings, It seems that every time I attempt to read a doc in adobe, I get an"alert empty document" message. This wasn't always the case. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing, or are there settings I might need to change on my system? Thanks. Judy