Photoshop shuts down w/o warning

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Kate_Jeppson
Jan 8, 2004
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For the past few months, I will be in Photoshop (7.0) working on something and all of a sudden the program closes. It goes back to windows or whatever is also running on my computer. It doesn’t save what I was working on. It doesn’t do this EVERY time I am in Photoshop, but I work on it daily, and it happens probably 3 or 4 times a week. NOT FUN!

I am working on an HP Pavilion ze5400 notebook and I run on Windows XP.

If you have any suggestions on why this is happening and how to stop it, I sure would appreciate it! Thank you!

Kate
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YrbkMgr
Jan 8, 2004
Try resetting your preferences per the procedure in the FAQ.

Peace,
Tony
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bigmatt304
Jan 8, 2004
I keep a copy of my preference files in the program to copy over. My problems came when I added a new plugin filter and it conflicted with photoshop. You might want to copy your filters to a different file and add them one at a time looking for conflicts.
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For the past few months, I will be in Photoshop (7.0) working on something
and all of a sudden the program closes. It goes back to windows or whatever is also running on my computer. It doesn’t save what I was working on. It doesn’t do this EVERY time I am in Photoshop, but I work on it daily, and it happens probably 3 or 4 times a week. NOT FUN!
I am working on an HP Pavilion ze5400 notebook and I run on Windows XP.
If you have any suggestions on why this is happening and how to stop it, I
sure would appreciate it! Thank you!
Kate
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Ian_McLean
Jan 10, 2004
I get the same problem when I am working on a big file or have scanned in several big files in sequence. I was wondering whether I overfill the memory! I have 256K opening sometimes 70 – 80 Mb files or saving a file with background copy – which almost doubles file size. Problem goes away if I reduce the file size!

Yours Ian
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Chris_Cox
Jan 16, 2004
Ian – Photoshop never "overfills" memory. And Photoshop can deal with gigabyte size images without any problems.

You might want to consider swapping out part of your RAM and seeing if the problem goes away.
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jconley
Jan 16, 2004
I smell a memory problem, how much ram is in your laptop, and do you have a seperate graphics card or is it integrated, b/c XP alone sucks up most of a computer with 256MB of ram, and if your video/graphics card is intergrated that means your RAM is under pressure to support all the graphics too, if you have half a gig of ram you should be ok, but if you dont be ready for some errors to occur.

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