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I want to open about 50 small .BMPs (88×88) so I can create a master palette that I will then batch apply to all these images. The problem is that Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) will open 30 of them and then just stop. No crash, no error message; it just stops opening up any more of the .BMPs. At that point, I can then go to File/open and try to open up the next image in the sequence by itself, and sometimes it will open, sometimes it won’t. But trying to open up all of the rest of the images at the same time just doesn’t do anything.
So I thought I’d batch convert to .TIFFs just to see if that would help at all. But trying to batch convert the .BMPs does the same thing — it goes for a while and then just stops after processing 30 of them. This time, however, I get an error: "The command ‘convert mode’ is not currently available."
So I’m having to batch convert to .TIFFs in another program. Frustrating.
It looks like I might simply be up against an honest-to-goodness bug (more on that below), but I thought I’d ask here in case there might be something I’m doing wrong.
It doesn’t appear to be memory related (before loading the images, I might be using about 700MB of RAM; after the (failed) load, it’s only about 750MB (and this is out of 3GB of RAM with Photoshop set to use the default 70%). There is plenty of free space on the scratch disk (121GB).
Interestingly, I’ve been able to tie this behavior into a bug that’s been annoying me for some time but until now could never figure out how to reproduce — when working for a while with .BMPs, occasionally I’d get Photoshop into this mode where saving out .BMPs creates 0 KB, invalid files. And if I don’t check now and then as I’m saving, I can really screw myself because I have to go back and re-save all those invalid files (after closing and re-opening Photoshop to get it out of this "mode"). Well, I discovered that after trying to open the 50 files I want but Photoshop stops at 30, it is now in unable to save valid .BMPs. If I try to save a new .BMP from one of the open files to some other location (or as a copy to the same location), it will almost always save a 0 KB file. I’ve reported this behavior to the bug report link.
So I thought I’d batch convert to .TIFFs just to see if that would help at all. But trying to batch convert the .BMPs does the same thing — it goes for a while and then just stops after processing 30 of them. This time, however, I get an error: "The command ‘convert mode’ is not currently available."
So I’m having to batch convert to .TIFFs in another program. Frustrating.
It looks like I might simply be up against an honest-to-goodness bug (more on that below), but I thought I’d ask here in case there might be something I’m doing wrong.
It doesn’t appear to be memory related (before loading the images, I might be using about 700MB of RAM; after the (failed) load, it’s only about 750MB (and this is out of 3GB of RAM with Photoshop set to use the default 70%). There is plenty of free space on the scratch disk (121GB).
Interestingly, I’ve been able to tie this behavior into a bug that’s been annoying me for some time but until now could never figure out how to reproduce — when working for a while with .BMPs, occasionally I’d get Photoshop into this mode where saving out .BMPs creates 0 KB, invalid files. And if I don’t check now and then as I’m saving, I can really screw myself because I have to go back and re-save all those invalid files (after closing and re-opening Photoshop to get it out of this "mode"). Well, I discovered that after trying to open the 50 files I want but Photoshop stops at 30, it is now in unable to save valid .BMPs. If I try to save a new .BMP from one of the open files to some other location (or as a copy to the same location), it will almost always save a 0 KB file. I’ve reported this behavior to the bug report link.
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