Photoshop/Illustrator... please help

maccebu · 2nd April 2008, 01:32

Hi all,

just wanna ask to those that are professional on this matter.. Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

Anybody here having problems in leopard (10.5.2) running Adobe CS3 suite Photoshop/Illustrator cause we have some really pain in the x%$ of crashing in this software.

We are editing banners stuff so the file is typically huge around 300-500 MB or more.

Any suggestions on what 's a good workflow handling these huge files in photoshop.

One thing also when we open the file it takes up all the free space on the startup drive and generates a popup message "Your Startup Disk is almost full" - i dont know where does photoshop creates a temporary file. I can set the sratch disk to another drive that has more free space, but still it eats up all the available space and when there's no more space at all the spinning beachball happens and photoshop hangs then crash

note: The system we are using are the latest macpro 3.2GHz octocore 2GB 800MHz RAM

I tried deleting preferences but still crashing persist. Whats the minimum memory requirement of photoshop? im tired of googling adobe sorry..

any advice?

Zaid Al Hilali · 2nd April 2008, 02:12

Memory, memory, and more memory has always been the issue with Photoshop.

I heard of numerous crashing matters with Leopard, the solution was that you must install latest Adobe updates.
Your file is huge, and requires that you set Photoshop's scratch disk to a secondary disk.

maccebu · 2nd April 2008, 02:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaid Al Hilali

Memory, memory, and more memory has always been the issue with Photoshop.

I heard of numerous crashing matters with Leopard, the solution was that you must install latest Adobe updates.
Your file is huge, and requires that you set Photoshop's scratch disk to a secondary disk.

as far as i can see in photoshop, it only uses maximum 3GB of memory as i have seen it on the preferences, so a 4-5 GB is enough i guess..

does it really solve the issues of crashing when updating adobe photoshop? and yes i already pointed to another internal disk, but after working for an hour the disk wound end up full already..

Magnus · 2nd April 2008, 07:12

Unfortunately I don't have a solution, but I can tell you I've worked with similarly large files on a MacPro with almost the same specs but with 4GB RAM, and CS3, and I've had none of the problems you describe.

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maccebu Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 56	Photoshop/Illustrator... please help Hi all, just wanna ask to those that are professional on this matter.. Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator Anybody here having problems in leopard (10.5.2) running Adobe CS3 suite Photoshop/Illustrator cause we have some really pain in the x%$ of crashing in this software. We are editing banners stuff so the file is typically huge around 300-500 MB or more. Any suggestions on what 's a good workflow handling these huge files in photoshop. One thing also when we open the file it takes up all the free space on the startup drive and generates a popup message "Your Startup Disk is almost full" - i dont know where does photoshop creates a temporary file. I can set the sratch disk to another drive that has more free space, but still it eats up all the available space and when there's no more space at all the spinning beachball happens and photoshop hangs then crash note: The system we are using are the latest macpro 3.2GHz octocore 2GB 800MHz RAM I tried deleting preferences but still crashing persist. Whats the minimum memory requirement of photoshop? im tired of googling adobe sorry.. any advice? Last edited by Magnus : 2nd April 2008 at 07:10.

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2nd April 2008, 02:12	#2 (permalink)
Zaid Al Hilali Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mirdif-Dubai Posts: 1,393	Memory, memory, and more memory has always been the issue with Photoshop. I heard of numerous crashing matters with Leopard, the solution was that you must install latest Adobe updates. Your file is huge, and requires that you set Photoshop's scratch disk to a secondary disk.

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Magnus Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dubai Posts: 8,333	Unfortunately I don't have a solution, but I can tell you I've worked with similarly large files on a MacPro with almost the same specs but with 4GB RAM, and CS3, and I've had none of the problems you describe.