"not enough ram to launch Photoshop"

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Phosphor
Jun 27, 2003
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How large is your VM swapfile? Did you put the swapfile on a separate partition?
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Bill R Marshall
Jul 2, 2003
No I only have one partition. I don’t know how large it is. How do you tell?
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YrbkMgr
Jul 2, 2003
How do you tell?

Control Panel>System applet> Performance Tab> Virtual Memory

Tells you if A) you are letting Windows manage your swapfile (recommended) and B) what size it is.
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Bill R Marshall
Jul 23, 2003
Windows is set to control the swap file size and the only number showing says "27384 mg free".
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Pierre Courtejoie
Jul 23, 2003
Did you update to PS 5.02?

< http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=Windows>
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Mac McDougald
Jul 26, 2003
XP or W2K?

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Phosphor
Jul 30, 2003
Bill – have you changed the OS VM settings recently?
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LenHewitt
Jul 30, 2003
Bill,

Do you have plenty of free disk space?
Have you tried deleting the Prefs file?
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Phosphor
Aug 5, 2003
And how much space is available on the OS swap volume?

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