some help please... when scanning the file utility indicates that the disk capacity is low.. the computer hard drive has more than enough disk capacity, so what is the problem? have tried reinstallion, deleting all previously scanned docs, and making a new folder to scan to, these did not prove successful... help?

In the Scanner File Utility, under Setup there is a "Hard Disk Warning", bump that all the way up to 99%

WeBeJammin is likely correct - I think the default notification is 80%. 80% Full on a 500GB HDD leaves 100GB Free...

I'm assuming this had been working previously based on your description.

great, thanks! it is ready to scan like normal... but what happens if the message comes up again and the hard disk warning is already at 99% ? what folder do you empty?

The question at that point is whether or not the drive is really 99% full. If it isn't and files actually aren't being saved it may be a rights issue - the Scan to File service uses credentials that have to have the authority to have full control of the destination folder.

Scoful, what's your background man? I am in this business 3 years and you're the tech I want to be. You learn computers through hobby or training? Any advice for a newbie?

I have continuously owned personal computers since 1981. I began working with them professionally in 1989.
My last actual computer class (other than webinars and seminars) was Motorola 6502 Assembly language programming (using the 'Big Mac' assembler - don't know how they got away with that name) in 1988.
I had always been an electronics hobbyist and in 1993 went to work for a pretty good sized electronics repair company - bringing computer repair along with me. I became a self and peer educated electronics technician and eventually became service manager for the organization, supervising about a dozen technicians.
When the bottom started falling out of consumer electronics I made the move to office equipment answering an ad in the paper - connectivity was a new concept and they wanted to be prepared. Less than two years later I became a partner.

So, to answer your question - a little bit of both. Necessity is truly the mother of invention - and I've run into a lot of necessities over the years.

If you're going to be doing more IT work I strongly recommend you start accumulating a toolbox. I keep a variety of tools on a thumb drive and upload some to my website so I don't have to go looking for them.

Some of my favorite freebies are:
Netscan - sweeps the network and shows what devices are there.

IPManager - allows you to configure your laptop network connections with some handy presets

ATTO Disk Benchmark

UBCD - Ultimate Boot CD - has tons of tools like memory tests, CPU Stress Tests etc.

RoadKil.net has a variety of cool and useful tools.

Some of my favorites that aren't free:
Microsoft's Actionpack - this is an invaluable tool for any organization that does IT work. It includes multiple licenses of all current operating systems (Vista, various 2003 server flavors, Exchange Server, Virtual Server, Office and a ton of other stuff).

Norton Ghost 2003 - don't know if you can really get this anymore. I use it for upgrading/replacing customer's hard drives as well as making drive images before test deployments of software or operating system changes (usually only on servers). There are other products that do this as well, but 2003 actually runs out of PC-DOS so you can get into it really fast and it doesn't require any installation.

I think the key is to not be afraid to try new things and make the time investment in figuring things out.

There is a newer scanner utility out there that takes care of this problem. I would delete the old one and install the new one. I just had the same problem with one on Friday and it went from Reddish yellow tint back to brown and everything worked fine