{"id":47,"date":"2021-05-08T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-05-08T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:07:10","slug":"first-do-no-harm-memory-errors-with-photoshop-cs5-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/first-do-no-harm-memory-errors-with-photoshop-cs5-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First, do no harm.&#8221; &#8211; Memory errors with Photoshop CS5 (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Could not complete the Export command because there is not enough memory (RAM).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got this when merely trying to export to the web a simple and small image.<\/p>\n<p>I have 8 gigs of RAM, and CS4 never had this problem.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t detail the screw-with-the-plugins-for-hours agony or any of the rest of the trauma, and I&#8217;ll skip to the chase:<\/p>\n<p>the 32-bit version of PS CS5 no longer recognizes 3072 Megs of RAM on an 8-GB machine, and instead recognizes only 2.1 gigs.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you switch to 32-bit mode to regain use of your plugins, you also loose 1 GB of RAM as well.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this has a serious effect on the performance of Photoshop with almost all plugins. As noted, I can no longer do a Save for Web and Devices, because (again, on my 8 GB machine) I &#8220;don&#8217;t have enough RAM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a fine-art photographer whose gallery-displayed works depend on plugins, the upgrade to CS5 has been a disaster for me&#8230; or at the very least, a waste of $$$, and will remain so until such time as the plugins I&#8217;ve come to know, love, and depend upon, are made compatible with 64-bit mode, which recognizes all 8-gigs of my RAM.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you may be able to get around it by visiting prefs and jamming the performance slider all the way to the right, so that you&#8217;re using &#8220;all&#8221; 2.1GB. (Success depends on your individual plugins, setup, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but until the rest of the plugin world catches up, CS4 may be the only way to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Could not complete the Export command because there is not enough memory (RAM).&#8221; I got this when merely trying to export to the web a simple and small image. I have 8 gigs of RAM, and CS4 never had this problem. I won&#8217;t detail the screw-with-the-plugins-for-hours agony or any of the rest of the trauma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}