2.5gb swapfile for a 37mb PSD?

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Phosphor
Aug 16, 2007
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Got the exact same OS and OS settings between work and home?

You have to eliminate that as a variable, if you can. Could be Vista is digging through the file while it decompresses from the native PSD format to make sure it isn’t malicious.

Just a guess, regarding the speed of opening. And I don’t know what—if anything—that may have to do with the size of the swap file. 2.7 GB does seem a little high. But for a file of those pixel dimensions, you must have a ton of layers, containing a LOT of data for it to be 37 MB.

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Darrin_Willems
Aug 16, 2007
The file does have a lot of layers, something I wouldn’t have done myself but it was supplied by a client’s ad agency. The reason it has so many layers is because it contains several different layouts for a website. I suppose I could split them up into separate files on my home PC since it seems to handle it much better, but I was hoping there would be a simpler solution.

The configuration of my home machine is slightly beefier, though I wouldn’t think it’s enough to cause this much of a difference. I would definitely still notice a 2.4gb swapfile though. I’m running Home Premium there, and no virus scanner, but I would be surprised if that is the issue as I’ve never had problems like this before with AVG.
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PECourtejoie
Aug 17, 2007
Are you sure that there is no "Big Data" I.E. data that extends after the border of the image?

To see it Image> Reveal all
To remove it: (if you are sure that the data is no needed: CTRL+A (select all) then, Image>Crop

Is the image in 8 bits? no unneeded alpha channels?

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