[ 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?

Dang that does suck.....when I was working for Navigation 2 years ago doing a print design job, we where designing the Semi Trailer sides for the Nokian delivery trucks, well a 18 wheeler semi side is massive. The files where like 2-4gb .psd files layered.

We did them at 120dpi max and some even smaller and interpolated or whatever they call it at like 96dpi, I had a Dual G4 Mac I worked on with it and it had 1.5gb of ram in it and it took 45 minutes to save it and 45 minutes to open it before I could even work on it, days where slow and kind of tedious.

When it crashed and you lost 4 hours of work, now that sucked sometimes some filters I could not even run, I let one run all night before it finished. :D :P :o