CS Problems

[MitchellB]

All of a sudden I am getting hassles with PS

The machine is locking up when I attempt to crop images. I have 1 drive in the puter that is partitioned into a c and f drive.

Windows XP is installed on the primary drive which is C drive

my first scratch disk is f then the second is c

Available RAM is 1777 MB
Maximum used by Photoshop is 70% or 1244MB

It is telling me that my scratch disks are full. how do I clear them?

any other thoughts

[rammy]

Scratch disk is your HD, not your phyiscal memory! There is a clue in the word "disks" ;)

Even if PS used 100% of your actual physical memory (not possible), PS and the OS will still page to disk.
How much hard drive space do you have left? How much after you start PS, and how much JUST BEORE you perform the crop operation? Make sure after you do a save that you purge any unnecessary memory used.

How big is your swap file?

[MitchellB]

Rammy

I have 24GB left on c drive and 70GB left on F drive

How big is my swap file? I dont know...how do you tell?

Also when the machine locks up, the only thing I can do is push in the power button until the puter shuts down. When I reboot it goes through a scan disk and finds no rrors yet is says that both the f and c drives are dirty? Whats up with that?

[BDM]

Rammy

I have 24GB left on c drive and 70GB left on F drive

How big is my swap file? I dont know...how do you tell?

Also when the machine locks up, the only thing I can do is push in the power button until the puter shuts down. When I reboot it goes through a scan disk and finds no rrors yet is says that both the f and c drives are dirty? Whats up with that?
Not sure what "dirty" means. Have you tried the defragmentation program to see whether your drives could benefit from that?

Bruce

[mphoto]

Swap file size:
Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Performance Settings > Advanced Tab > Virtual Memory > Change (possibly)

Dirty drives? Could be complaining about fragmentation, or perhaps hard disk errors. I would recommend checking the disk for errors if the problem persists. From Windows Explorer right click the driver letter, select Properties > Tools Tab > Error-checking > Check now

Good luck.

[lostdoggy]

Wow thats a long way to get there. Right click my computer, click property, follow Mphoto direction after "system"

[Steven M. Anthony]

Do you shut down your computer or let it stay on all the time? I think I remember hearing that CS doesn't release some of the scratch space it sets up when you start the program--but it will clear when you shut down and power up again (which I think is different from "re-starting" or re-booting like you do when the computer locks up). If you open and close CS many times without shutting down and starting up, I think you might be building new scratch spaces each time.