Photoshop 6 (and 4, too) does not release memory on Close

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Frank_Kolwicz
Jul 13, 2004
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When I close a file after doing some work on it RAM does not return to the previous level and after closing either a big file or several my RAM totally disappears. The only way I can get back to my original value is to close Photoshop and reopen it.

System: Win2K; AMD 1600XP+; 768 Meg RAM.

Viruses are not an issue: I have never had a virus on this machine and I’ve been running Avast and Nod32 antivirus software anyway – they find nothing.

Because of other problems with Win2K I have reinstalled it 3 or 4 times since last Fall, this problem with Photoshop has always existed in both versions I’ve used and this goes back to when I first built this machine, about 3 years ago. It happens to be getting critical now, since I am working with much larger files than before.

All help is much appreciated.

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dave_milbut
Jul 13, 2004
The only way I can get back to my original value is to close Photoshop and reopen it.

that’s correct.

ps doesn’t release memory until you shutdown the app. this keeps memory from becoming fragmented (by allocating and deallocating) and speeds up subsequent tasks as it doesn’t need to reallocate memmory.

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