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A little while ago, I posted about an experience I have with Ctrl+Alt+[-/=] zooming, where after a while PS just stops resizing the window, and Ctrl+Alt+[-/=] zooming just works like regular Ctrl+[-/=] zooming. Another poster has noticed this behavior, so it’s not just me.
Just now, I noticed that I couldn’t eyedropper an image. Holding down Shift did nothing. The brush tool was active and I was Alt-clicking, and nothing happened, I didn’t get the eyedropper cursor or anything. I changed to the fill tool, where Alt-clicking to eyedrop still works, and nothing happened. Then I changed to the eyedropper tool, and it didn’t work. I closed and reopened PS and eyedropper works again.
Between the Ctrl+Alt zooming problem, the file browser crashing PS if I generate a ton of thumbnails in one browsing session, and another behavior I see more of in PS8 than in PS7, which is the program refusing to save images sometimes, throwing up the dialogue, "Photoshop cannot complete the request because an error has occurred," (or something very similar to that; it has been reported here by others before), I’m beginning to think there are some systemic problems, probably with memory management. All of these problems exhibit themselves randomly after extended sessions in PS. All of them are cured by closing and restarting PS. Quacks like a memory leak, to me.
I have tens of gigabytes of free harddrive space (with scratch disk not on my boot volume), on my P4 3ghz, 2g RAM, XP Pro system (Dell PWS360). Anyway, these bugs are infrequent but consistent, and consistently annoying.
Just now, I noticed that I couldn’t eyedropper an image. Holding down Shift did nothing. The brush tool was active and I was Alt-clicking, and nothing happened, I didn’t get the eyedropper cursor or anything. I changed to the fill tool, where Alt-clicking to eyedrop still works, and nothing happened. Then I changed to the eyedropper tool, and it didn’t work. I closed and reopened PS and eyedropper works again.
Between the Ctrl+Alt zooming problem, the file browser crashing PS if I generate a ton of thumbnails in one browsing session, and another behavior I see more of in PS8 than in PS7, which is the program refusing to save images sometimes, throwing up the dialogue, "Photoshop cannot complete the request because an error has occurred," (or something very similar to that; it has been reported here by others before), I’m beginning to think there are some systemic problems, probably with memory management. All of these problems exhibit themselves randomly after extended sessions in PS. All of them are cured by closing and restarting PS. Quacks like a memory leak, to me.
I have tens of gigabytes of free harddrive space (with scratch disk not on my boot volume), on my P4 3ghz, 2g RAM, XP Pro system (Dell PWS360). Anyway, these bugs are infrequent but consistent, and consistently annoying.
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