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Subject: help needed

RJH opened this issue on Aug 01, 2001 ยท 10 posts
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RJH ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2001 at 1:04 PM ยท edited Mon, 02 December 2024 at 4:35 AM

My Photoshop 5.5 has started saying not enough ram and shuts down. I have not changed anything on my system so whats up. I am running a 2xPII 300 machine with 128 meg of ram. 4 gig scuzzy drive with a Gig free. Does anyone have any ideas or should I just reinstall photoshop??

DigitalDream#3 ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2001 at 8:52 PM

I'm on a Mac, but maybe I can help a little. Do you have scratch disks specified? Go under your preferences and select plug-ins and scratch disks and choose, then re-start. Let me know if that works.

RJH ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2001 at 9:42 PM

I can't get to preferences because it will not start, sort of a chicken or the egg senerio.

RJH ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2001 at 9:47 PM

Found a way. I found the ini file that Photoshop uses and edited the memory settings now it works. Should have thought of it sooner

RJH ( ) posted Wed, 01 August 2001 at 10:56 PM

spoke to soon it fired up once and then boom no more

speakerme ( ) posted Thu, 02 August 2001 at 2:46 PM

suggest delete and relaod and see..... Chuck

RJH ( ) posted Fri, 03 August 2001 at 9:24 AM

i just ordered anther 256 meg of ram if that does not work i will reload

Boxx ( ) posted Sat, 04 August 2001 at 9:45 AM

Also allow enough scratch disk space as PS uses its own temp file instead of the Windows one.

djthomas ( ) posted Sun, 05 August 2001 at 5:19 PM

I recall reading a while ago in a number of books on PS that some problems could be eliminated by deleting the PS preference file...when PS is started again, it will automatically create a new one. The following is from the PS Readme File (PS version 6.0.1). It points to the location of this information. As one who has deleted the prefence file (in the past (earlier than ver 6.x) this allowed me to get back in and sort of "start over" without any problems. Initialization and Preferences Files You can find the Photoshop 6.0.1 preference files in the following locations: Windows 98: WindowsApplication DataAdobePhotoshop6.0Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings Windows NT: WinNTprofilesApplication DataAdobePhotoshop6.0Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings Windows 2000: C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataAdobePhotoshop6.0Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings. Note: Many preferences are now in the Windows registry. To reset your Photoshop preferences you can hit Shift-Ctrl-Alt upon startup.

Ehrilaz ( ) posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 10:10 PM

...might want to find out how much virtual memory is allocated. With only 1 gig free...thats not a whole heck of a lot, especially with limited RAM, good thing you bought that 256 or I'd say you wouldn't have much luck at all. You start opening more than one window, even just in Photoshop, you can say "bye. bye".

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