Not enough memory

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shuyg
Oct 3, 2008
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I made a javascript which has to convert and edit 18000 PDF’s (pages) to arround 103.000 small images. I use ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to load a small file with all the file locations. Then each file will be opened and edited (one by one). This works fine and there are no real peaks in memory usage.
I let photoshop use arround 1500MB from the 1600 available RAM (Preferences -> Performance). I’ve never seen the whole system use more then 1200MB (2000MB available).

Despite that there is enough memory, the script stops working with the text "General photoshop error occurred … this functionality because there is not enough memory (RAM)" in the status bar from ExtendScript.
When I restart the script, it will continue where it stopped and the next file will be converted without a problem.

The PDF file is not the problem and memory usage in general is not a problem.

Is this a bug or do I need to tweak photoshop more?

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Freeagent
Oct 3, 2008
This message is typically related to scratch disk, not RAM.

If possible, put Photoshop scratch disk on a dedicated first partition on a separate drive from the system drive. If that’s not possible (laptop) you should make sure that your drive is defragmented with enough contiguous free space.
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Paul_R
Oct 3, 2008
Sorry hit the send button twice. Ooops.
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Paul_R
Oct 3, 2008
Xbytor has written a script to get around this problem it will stop/start Photoshop using Bridge. Full detail here.
< http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1728&highli ght=ftbatch >

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