Ok...I was working on a big.., really big file on photoshop but it was ok... Today when trying to open it it said  scratch disks full... so I  cleaned it and my left my C drive with 15GB... Photoshop won´t open that file... it´s 2.100 GB... Iknow... (duck)

I have an Athlon 3.0, 1GB Ram and now 15GB free disk space

Now I don´t know what to do to open this file to split it!

Can anyone help, please!!!!

HUgs

Ilona

Try opening Photoshop, go to preferences, choose Plug-ins and scratch disks and choose a primary scratch disk and optionaly a second. If you have an external hard drive (with more memory than the local), set it as first, if not, leave your local as first (if not selected yet, select it). Then go to Memory and Image Cache (also in prefs) and under Memory usage set Maximum Used by Photoshop to 100%. Not sure, but it might do the trick... Let me know if it worked, Mike

Mike.,. you are a miracle man.. sure it helped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was about to try an exorcism on my computer!

Can´t thank you enough!!!!!!!!!

HUgs

Ilona

For others with a similiar problem...

Problems like this can also arise if the hard drive is heavily fragmented.  May have sufficent space - in reality - but not in a large enough continuous chunks.

Also, if photoshop had to be "ended" with the end program screen... might need to do a search for .tmp files and manually delete the photoshop temp files (then empty recycle bin of course) as these have a tendency to remain...

The bit with the external hard drive, don't recomend unless you always use this when running your machine.  As the drive number assigned may change, when it's disconnected, or if another external is also used...

Another thought is increasing the amount of RAM assigned to photoshop is often usefull, unless you do a lot of multitasking...

Some ideas FWIW