not enough scratch memory

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Jun 30, 2009
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during various procedures in photoshop, like converting a bunch of large raw files to jpg’s, or using the magic wand on a large image, i get a message "out of scratch memory" or a more generic "this procedure cannot be done" (or something like this)

i have a separate hard drive being used just for photoshop’s scratch memory and have devoted 70% of free memory to photoshop (i’m running 4 gigs in windows xp pro) ….

i have turned off almost all ongoing programs (anti-virus etc) which indeed does help ….

any suggestions to provide more scratch memory?

tia

steve
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rob
Jun 30, 2009
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during various procedures in photoshop, like converting a bunch of large raw files to jpg’s, or using the magic wand on a large image, i get a message "out of scratch memory" or a more generic "this procedure cannot be done" (or something like this)

i have a separate hard drive being used just for photoshop’s scratch memory and have devoted 70% of free memory to photoshop (i’m running 4 gigs in windows xp pro) ….

i have turned off almost all ongoing programs (anti-virus etc) which indeed does help ….

any suggestions to provide more scratch memory?

tia

steve

What version of PS?
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pshaw
Jul 1, 2009
cs4

steve

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:04:15 +1000, Rob wrote:

wrote:
during various procedures in photoshop, like converting a bunch of large raw files to jpg’s, or using the magic wand on a large image, i get a message "out of scratch memory" or a more generic "this procedure cannot be done" (or something like this)

i have a separate hard drive being used just for photoshop’s scratch memory and have devoted 70% of free memory to photoshop (i’m running 4 gigs in windows xp pro) ….

i have turned off almost all ongoing programs (anti-virus etc) which indeed does help ….

any suggestions to provide more scratch memory?

tia

steve

What version of PS?
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rob
Jul 1, 2009
wrote:
cs4

steve

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:04:15 +1000, Rob wrote:

wrote:
during various procedures in photoshop, like converting a bunch of large raw files to jpg’s, or using the magic wand on a large image, i get a message "out of scratch memory" or a more generic "this procedure cannot be done" (or something like this)

i have a separate hard drive being used just for photoshop’s scratch memory and have devoted 70% of free memory to photoshop (i’m running 4 gigs in windows xp pro) ….

i have turned off almost all ongoing programs (anti-virus etc) which indeed does help ….

any suggestions to provide more scratch memory?

tia

steve
What version of PS?

With XP – this only handles up to about 3Gb of ram anyway so it can’t use all anyway. Go into your Control panel, System, Advanced, performance options, Advanced, (at bottom) Virtual memory Change. This will give you more available virtual memory and resolve your problem.

You can also allocate more memory into your system by altering your Boot.ini file. This can cause boot problems but there is an item up on MS knowledge base on how this is done.

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