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PS7 started crashing after AutoLevels, here's why
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Went into my local park here in UK yesterday, after snowfalls, and took loads of snowy pics.
As usual, PS7'd to get better colour balance, which works a treat for me, just removes some of the blueiness from some pics.
Couldn't understand why PS7 kept crashing after saving a couple of pics at a time, amended various memory caches etc settings, no different.
I then noticed in the background that with the thumbnails being redrawn after saving, if I AutoLevelled and saved too quickly, PS7 crashed.
As I had 100+ pics, I had been almost batch Autolevelling and saving quite quickly.
The solution to stop PS7 crashing was to wait until the just saved photo had redrawn its thumbnail, more practically, I counted to 5 before saving the next photo.
Stopped crashing immediately.
So if you've just been out in the snow, and PS7 keeps crashing on you, this may well be the reason, and the solution.
(Last edited by MacNNUK; Mar 23, 2008 at 10:51 PM.
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You do know that Photoshop 7 is not a fully native Mac OS-X application. It's written in Carbon , so it would run on both OS-9 or X. When run in X it needs a gob of real RAM memory...I suspect your issue is just the old fight between too little real RAM , which means the so-called Scratch Disk and X's Virtual Memory swap files would be tugging at each other a lot. And yes, you do have an itchy trigger finger.
Maybe in the future you could write an Action and batch process your pile of pix by just letting Photoshop do them at its own pace without you being there at all .
I swear that PS7 ran faster and better on my OS-9 machine at 400 Mhz / G3 than it ever ran on my 766mhz/ G4 under OS-X Panther. But that was several iterations ago.
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Since I slowed down on the AutoLevels and saving, I've had no problems at all.
A Batch wouldn't work for me, because some pics need lifting before AutoLevelling, as an ex-Video guy I am quite critical about the quality of the saved image.
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iMac Intel Core i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 21.5" Monitor 10.7.4.
iMac 17" 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo w 3gb memory (White one) 10.6.8.
Internal 500gb / 160gb plus External 500gb x 2 (2x Time Machine)
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carbon is no less 'native' than any other programming environment. admittedly PS7 isn't exactly the best carbon port in the world, but one shouldn't let that pain carbon in too much of negative light...
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