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Hi. I’m new to this forum and wondered if anyone here has experienced something similar to what I’m going through right now, to wit:
My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client, at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.
While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change. A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.
Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?
Neal
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"Is Graham Chapman really dead or is he just being difficult?" – Eric Idle
My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client, at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.
While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change. A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.
Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?
Neal
—
"Is Graham Chapman really dead or is he just being difficult?" – Eric Idle
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