On Sep 20, 2012, at 8:40 , Andrej Benjak wrote: > [...] > Has anybody else also got the same "Cannot allocate memory" before "Could not > create new snapshot directory? Disk full? changed permissions?"? Hello Andrej, first time I see this. But it points into the same direction I previously suspected: that the (rather crude) way I chose to remove and create directories by calling external shell commands could sometimes fail for more or less obvious reasons. Indeed, I have already rewritten this part of the code (using nice libraries which were not available 10 years ago) and it will be in 3.9.5. I hope that this kind of message is then a thing of the past. In the mean timeI apologise for any inconvenience. B.