[filmscanners] Re: Photoshop freezing

["Brad Davis" <DocBradd@mac.com>]

On 17/7/03 10:34, "LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net> wrote:

> I believe that your so-called clue is a normal condition and one of the
> reasons why one requires a large scratch disk of unfragmented contiguous
> space usually 3-5 times the size of one's actual file size.  You do need to
> turn virtual memory on so as to use the scratch disks.  The 120MB of
> physical RAM is really very little in the scheme of things with contemporary
> machines having up to 3GB of physical RAM with as much as 1GB asigned to
> Photoshop. However, unless you are working with 3 or 4 100MB plus files
> during a session, it should not cause the Photoshop to freeze once you turn
> the virtual memory back on and assign Photoshop a sccratch disk space one a
> hard drive with some free contiguous unfragmented space of around 100MB or
> more ( better yet assign the scratch disk itsown dedicated hard drive or, at
> least a dedicated partition on a hard drive).
>
>> There is 304MB installed RAM of which 120,000MB are assigned to Photoshop.
>
> I assume that the 120,000MB iws an error and should read 120MB; otherwise
> that is your problem, you are trying to do the impossible. :-)
>
> You also might check to see if the files which are to be saved are flattened
> files since sometimes undesr some settings one cannot save unflattened
> files;  files that are 42 bit as oppposed to 24 bit also cannot be saved to
> a TIFF format.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Maaki
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:24 AM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Photoshop freezing
>
>
> I've hired a graphic designer to scan and colour correct some
> transparencies using Photoshop, and I have set her up on a new Epson
> 3200 scanner, and a PowerMac 9500 upgraded with a G3/400/1MB card,
> and running Mac OS 9.1. (I had never used Photoshop myself, but I
> seem to be the tech support person for all the Macs around here).
> There is 304MB installed RAM of which 120,000MB are assigned to
> Photoshop. Virtual Memory is off.
>
> Today Photoshop kept freezing. It seemed to work fine for the first
> file opened and adjusted, but it always froze during the "Save  As"
> of the second  file. The files are in the range of 20 to 40 MB in
> size.
>
> Following is what happens. Open a Photoshop TIFF file, make some
> adjustments and save it as under a new title and then close it. Then
> when another TIFF file is opened, everything is the same up until the
> "Save As" operation. When the dialog appears asking whether to save
> as a "PC" or "Macintosh" file, the program freezes as soon as
> "Macintosh' is clicked leaving a white space where the dialog had
> been.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> CLUE
> (A) I've checked with Memory Mapper, and find that Photoshop does
> not release the extra memory a file used when that file is closed. It
> hass to be quit and re-launched in order to release the memory.
>
> Maaki
>
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