[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Memory for appz

ok, even as i type this, my processes menu is telling me:

im right in the middle of working on a 345 Mb Photoshop file, and i havent saved for about 2 hours. as you can imagine, i dont want to loose any of my work. but, upon editing a large amount of type, PS freaked out and started to freeze, and is giving me the dreaded [Not Responding] next to the app name.

Now, the Mem and CPU usage for PS is still going up and down as if it is processing, and i got an error before saying my comp had to increase the size of its Virtual Memory for the Page File Usage History.

What i want to know is, is there anyway i can hold onto my work and not force quit Photoshop? If i leave it for long enough, will it sort itself out? Can i increase the memory available to PS and the Page File History, so it will finish its process? Is there anything i can do?

You can decrease cpu usage and memory by flatteing layers, but you should save the origanl and name it different if you are going to do so.

PS is a resource hog when it comes to projects over 100MB