Can’t open large layered pdf files. Not enough memory

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WEIRDWOLF
Aug 28, 2008
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I have a large 300 M layered pdf file that when I attempt to open eventually pops up the "not enough memory (RAM) message.

I am on a windows XP Power Spec computer with 1.97 RAM I have allocated 1106 MB for memory useage, 12 history states and 8 cahce level.

I have a 187 GB Seagate exterior harddrive as my main scratch disk and a mirrored main drive C with 154 GB of free space as my second scratch disk.

I also experience a canvas disapearance occasionally when using the polygonnal lasso tool. I can be clicking along and all of the sudden the image disapears until I click again. Annoying but not unworkable.

Any ideas?
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Freeagent
Aug 29, 2008
"Not Enough Memory" usually means there’s not enough free, contiguous and defragmented scratch disk space available.

exterior harddrive as my main scratch disk

If it’s a USB external, that’s too slow. It should be either Firewire 800 or eSATA. But a separate internal SATA drive is the best.

For now, try to defragment your drives and see if that helps.
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WEIRDWOLF
Aug 29, 2008
I can open psd and other file formats of equal size but not pdf’s. I switched the scratch discs around to see if that helped but still am getting the same issues

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