[pcd2k]

had an image on the screen
tried to save it
pressed ok
screen folded window view to dialogue box
mac said 'not enough ram"
freak freak 'oh **** can't save masterpiece'

hid photoshop checked the ram allotment
computer ram window gave 149 ram for app
all filled up
returned to app
tried to save it again
by halving the image resolution
dialogue box sprang up
do you want to 'replace or...........'
clicked cancel
read through my folder
and discovered that my image had been saved
wow cool
how did that happen ?

I thought I had allotted more than 149 ram to the program
quit program
searched through the drive for folder app
got 'get info'
and yes I had allotted 152 ram to app

so what happened here , to the 3 ram difference ?
and how after I learnt I couldn't save the file, it was saved anyway ?

(macos922/Pshop5.5/G3iTower384ram)

[ 02-17-2002: Message edited by: pcd2k ]

[Corys]

you sure the error was something like they preview couldn't be saved? that can be a common error in Illustrator, the file saves out but not the preview.
also, how much disk space do you have available? can you move one of your photoshop scratch partitions to another drive?
I could be wrong, but the only time you will get a "not enough memory" error in PS is when you filled up all your scratch disks. Photoshop has it's own built in "Virtual Memory"

[pcd2k]

With 384 ram I had allotted 150 to Pshop and 150 to I.E. and was swapping between them reading off a tutorial and switching to try it out. The Apple computer memory panel showed that 149 of ram was being occupied of the 150 allotted to it which was strange because the file that I was working on was only a 6 meg file , so what do you make of that ?

[Corys]

The file itself may have only been 6 megs, but think about what it needs to store..
Layers, Undo's, History information, clipboard info..
all that needs to be stored somewhere