File corruption happening too regularly…

My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client,
at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.

While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with
MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as
high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change.
A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.

Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?

On 26-Feb-2004, Video Flyer wrote:

My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client,
at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.

While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with
MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as
high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change.
A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.

Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?

Have you checked your hard disk(s) for errors?
Do you have enough free hard disk space?

As far as hard disk errors go, I’ve checked a number of times over the course of the months this has been going on and haven’t found any.
Now, all of the files that have gone belly-up have been on my external firewire portable drive. But this drive hasn’t caused me any problems in any other app (including Lightwave, which is pretty demanding) and hasn’t caused me any Photoshop-related problems when hooked up to the OS X Mac in the office.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:46:41 GMT, Video Flyer wrote:

As far as hard disk errors go, I’ve checked a number of times over the course of the months this has been going on and haven’t found any.
Now, all of the files that have gone belly-up have been on my external firewire portable drive. But this drive hasn’t caused me any problems in any other app (including Lightwave, which is pretty demanding) and hasn’t caused me any Photoshop-related problems when hooked up to the OS X Mac in the office.

Have you checked the Firewire cable? try swapping it out with a cable you know is OK (from someone who isn’t having this problem). A remarkable number of data transfer errors can be caused by faulty cables.

Have you checked your memory to ensure it’s all OK?

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:46:41 GMT, Video Flyer wrote:

As far as hard disk errors go, I’ve checked a number of times over the course of the months this has been going on and haven’t found any.
Now, all of the files that have gone belly-up have been on my external firewire portable drive. But this drive hasn’t caused me any problems in any other app (including Lightwave, which is pretty demanding) and hasn’t caused me any Photoshop-related problems when hooked up to the OS X Mac in the office.

Have you checked the Firewire cable? try swapping it out with a cable you know is OK (from someone who isn’t having this problem). A remarkable number of data transfer errors can be caused by faulty cables.

Have you checked your memory to ensure it’s all OK?

—

Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

Hmmm….hadn’t even thought to check the cable. D’oh! I’ve got a few I could swap it with, including the one I always use in the office where the problem doesn’t seem to have cropped up.

How would I go about checking the memory?

Thanks for the input, by the by… 😛

Hi. I’m new to this forum and wondered if anyone here has experienced something similar to what I’m going through right now, to wit:
My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client, at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.

While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change. A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.

Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?

Neal

Does your motherboard contain a VIA chipset?

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Hi. I’m new to this forum and wondered if anyone here has experienced something similar to what I’m going through right now, to wit:
My photoshop files are becoming corrupted at a mildly alarming rate. I do graphic design work for a web/video company and frequently work out ideas and revisions in many-layered files until a look is approved by the client, at which time I winnow down and combine layers and save as a new and infinitely more streamlined file for tweaking/finalization. In the last 6 months or so, I’ve been finding that an alarming number of my work files (the highly-layered ones) are freezing up Photoshop and, indeed, my entire system when I try to open them. Even occasionally files I’d just been working on the day before.

While I do keep many more layers than most folks I know, I haven’t come anywhere near the theoretical limit. I’m using Photoshop 7 on a G4/450 with MacOS 9.2.2 and 200 megs of RAM assigned currently (tried upping the RAM as high as I could reasonably go given a total of 576 meg installed with no apparent change in this behavior). Tried reinstalling Photoshop. No change. A couple of months ago, I reinstalled the OS. Again, no impact.
Needless to say, this is distressing.

Has anyone got any experience with something like this? What should I be checking next?

Neal

On 2/27/04 11:24 PM, in article
, "Sid Daley"
wrote:

Does your motherboard contain a VIA chipset?

Hmmmmmm….beats me. What is it and how would I know?

Neal

Go into control panel/device manager/system devices and see if any VIA items are listed there..
I had problems with CRC errors for two years, turns out it was a inherent flaw in the chipset (not fixable had to get a new board).

Sid

In article <BC659317.90C0% says…

On 2/27/04 11:24 PM, in article
, "Sid Daley"
wrote:

Does your motherboard contain a VIA chipset?

Hmmmmmm….beats me. What is it and how would I know?

Neal

On 2/28/04 10:34 AM, in article
, "Sid Daley"
wrote:

Go into control panel/device manager/system devices and see if any VIA items are listed there..
I had problems with CRC errors for two years, turns out it was a inherent flaw in the chipset (not fixable had to get a new board).

Sid

Ahhhh. I recognize that. That’s Windows-speak. Is this anything that afflicts Mac-users or is it Windows-specific

Neal