Unfortunately, Adobe acknowledges that there will be some problems using Photoshop 8 (CS) under Leopard, and Adobe will not fix them. As this version of Photoshop was created long before Leopard, and there currently are/will soon be versions of Photoshop (CS3, CS4) that are compatible, that is the direction you should be looking.
The other point is that you should NEVER spend more time working on a file unsaved than you care to spend on recreating it. For me, that is generally no more than 5-10 minutes. Hours would be unthinkable.
Thanks to all of you. Neil, you are absolutely correct; I should have saved much earlier. Gotta get my work flow in check. Buko, you triggered my discovery of the solution…I saved it to an external hard drive, and it worked like a charm. So that caused me to check my internal memory. Guess what…the real problem was that I only had 22 GB’s left, and the file was 24 GB’s. So I also have to clean out my memory! Too many videos! So I’m bouncing back and forth between Final Cut and PhotoShop and not keeping my work flow well organized.
Time for some serious spring (Fall) cleaning! Thanks for the quick response.
You are confusing hard disk space with memory, but, yes, you need a lot more available hard drive space.
Hard drive space is NOT memory; memory is RAM.
Your boot hard drive should not be more than 50% full at any given time, and you need about 50GB available as a minimum, much more of you do not another drive designated as your primary scratch disk drive.
Not having such a second internal (preferably) or external hard drive designated as your primary scratch disk drive means that the OS and Photoshop are going to be competing for the use of the only read/write head on the boot drive. Not only will performance suffer, but you would need ideally at least 100 GB available for the OS to build its swap file and Photoshop its scratch.
I keep a dedicated, physically separate 160 GB hard drive as Photoshop scratch drive, and have well over 300 GB of available space on my boot drive.
When drives get about 60% full, it’s time to get a larger one. If your drive gets to be 80% full you are in big trouble already.
When drives get about 60% full, it’s time to get a larger one.
Sue, as Ramón says. It’s also time to assess what you’re keeping on your drive(s) and why.
First, a hard drive should never be considered to be the ultimate repository for your work. Drives fail. And computers (particularly laptops) are vulnerable: they die, drop, get lost or stolen.
Make and keep multiple backups of your work, particularly if it is difficult or impossible to recreate: on a second drive, and/or on CD, DVD or DVD-DL media. Keep one set off-premises.
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