At 12:34 PM -0500 7/17/03, LAURIE SOLOMON 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.
This is incorrect. Photoshop uses its own virtual memory protocol
which you can not turn off; you should turn off the virtual memory in
the system memory control panel and let Photoshop handle the virtual
memory tasks that it requires, otherwise you will get disk thrashing
and a lot slower performance as the two virtual memory schemes try to
outthink each other. This is covered in the Photoshop manual. As
mentioned, it's best to use a contiguous fast disk or partition
assigned solely as a scratch disk for Photoshop. A separate disk is
best.
>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.
>
I've never seen a condition where Photoshop would let you save an
unsupported format. I doubt that could happen.
This sort of freezing is often due to bad SCSI cabling, termination
or connectors (I'm assuming you use mainly SCSI peripherals on the
9600, and are not using a Firewire card and drive).
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* Henning J. Wulff
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