Photoshop CS Locks Up When Cropping to a size

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Joel_D_White
Jul 3, 2004
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I just ordered CS, but while before it arrives I am using the 30 day tryout. I am having a crash/lockup problem when using the crop tool and giving specific dimensions to crop to.

For example, I enter 800 width and 600 height in the crop dimensions and when I apply the crop PS CS starts to work but then quits responding and proceeds to fill up my temp directory with huge files (30GB). I end up doing a hard reboot to the computer and then cleaning up the temp file after the reboot.

Is this happening to other people? This same operation worked fine for me in PS 7.

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dave_milbut
Jul 3, 2004
what kind of system do you have?
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LenHewitt
Jul 3, 2004
Joel,

Chances are you did NOT add ‘px’ after the 800 and 600 and so Photoshop attempted to create a 800 in x 600 in file, resulting in a huge file and giant scratch file. Had you been patient enough, it would have either managed it or reported that you didn’t have sufficient scratch space.
JD
Joel_D_White
Jul 6, 2004
I think you may be right about the px instead of in. I typically set my prefence to px in the menu and forget about it. I just tried it, ensuring it had the px after the number and it worked.

It makes good sense now that you pointed that out. BTW, I have a P4 2.2Ghz machine with 768MB RAM.
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ETBiggs
Jul 15, 2004
Hey Len —

Thanks for the advice to Joel — it was exactly what i needed. I still have a huge temp file on the scratch thoug (156 MB for a 500 Kb file). Is this jump in file normal??? P4 2.6Ghz 1.5G ram, 120 hd 2k Pro.

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