On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:22:35 -0500, Louise wrote:
I worked on a tiff file in Photoshop for quite some time. When I was done, I had a 1.3 gig file. Now, I can’t even move it to another directory in Windows Explorer without freezing my machine.
So you are not using Photoshop at this point, you are just looking at the saved file in a Windows folder and trying to move it to another location? If so, I don’t see how the Photoshop scratch or pagefile settings are relevant.
If you are moving the file to another folder on the same logical hard drive partition (the same "drive letter"), Windows shouldn’t even need to copy the file – it just changes the directory pointers. I can’t imagine why it would freeze unless the directory structure of your drive is seriously damaged.
If it is, that is what CHKDSK and Scandisk are for. Typically you would right click the icon for your drive, choose Properties, the Tools tab, and Error-checking. Safest plan is to run it without "Automatically fix" first, and see what it finds. Almost always it is safe to go ahead and let it fix errors. If it doesn’t find any problems without "Scan for bad sectors", turn that on and try again – but be prepared for a wait measured in hours.
If the destination is on a different partition, then the entire 1.3 GB needs to be read, and written to the new partition. If one bit of it can’t be read, Windows may retry for a _very_ long time (I’ve seen over five minutes!), and appear to be frozen (Windows Explorer may be reported as "not responding"), before giving up and reporting a read error. Again disk Error-checking would be a good place to start.
For detailed XP instructions:
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q315265>
Apparently if XP Chkdsk finds no errors, you get no report or log, just the "check complete 0" dialog. If there are problems you may need to look in the "Event Viewer" to see the details: <
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The Event Viewer might also contain messages from a S.M.A.R.T utility provided by your drive vendor, or other drive-related messages.
Earlier Windows versions created a Scandisk.Log file at the top of your Windows drive with full details of the scan.
Can Photoshop re-open the file? If so you could then save it again to a new location.
Loren