First, you might increase the cache levels to 6 or so. Second, swap your memory cards to make sure some timing-critical or data pattern sensitive thing is not the problem.
< increase cache?>
I’m speculating about that, but the default value is 4, so maybe more is better.
Did you even try it?
Probably would not affect the disk save problem, but increasing cache increases RAM usage (see below). I’m defragging all disks and will run some other disk clean up utilities – I’m suspecting a windows swap file issue.
from the Que website:
"Setting the Cache Levels
Cache Levels are screen redraws. It’s how many versions of the current active document Photoshop saves. When you’re working on large documents, Cache Levels helps speed up the redraw function, and makes image manipulation proceed faster. However, they are held primarily in RAM memory, so the more Cache Levels you select, the less RAM memory is available for other Photoshop functions. "
Does the save dialog show up?
If not, could it be offscreen?
PSCS2 is suddenly freezing when I go to save files
So, photoshop is open, but not responding?
Have you tried resetting your preferences per the procedure in the faq? How about reinstall? A reinstall, by the way, doesn’t overwrite your preferences like resetting preferences does.
Well, all, here’s what I did.
Ran ckdsk four times. (it didn’t give me a report, but i know from running fsck on unix/macs machines that if errors are corrected you need to run it again (and again) until it reports an error free scan.
defragged the C and D drives (D is dedicated to PS as a scratch disk).
Also deleted photoshop prefs (again).
opened ps and set up preferences. Quit. Reopened.
NOW it’s saving files again.
(What was happening before is that PSCS2 was behaving normally on all tasks, big and small, until I would go to ‘save’ or ‘save as.’ In both cases PS would simply hang – hourglass, but no other notification, such as ‘Not Responding.’ All other programs open were still working.)
Next time it does that, try hitting escape and see if things go back to working (which would indicate that the dialog was offscreen).
