Yes I did that and on sp_spaceused here are the stats

rows reserved data...

I did increase the size of temp (tempdb.mdf) to 10 G and I still get the same message....

Steve,

I haven't tried that...I guess I can use

USE master

GO

ALTER DATABASE tempdb

MODIFY FILE

(NAME = tempdev,

SIZE = say 2048MB)

GO

I may not want to go up...