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February 13, 2026

Memory management issue

  • February 13, 2026
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I shoot dance recitals every year. I had an older Mac with 16 GB of RAM and had no issues automatically converting thousands of raw files to jpeg automatically once adjustments were made in ACR. My MacStudio with 64GB of RAM keeps running out of memory after about 300 images which is significantly slowing down my processing as I have to babysit the computer to keep the conversions going in a timely manner.

I have looked at all the settings and I cannot see where I can fix this issue that seems to have started on the last or the previous update(s).

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    February 14, 2026

    Is  there any masking or other advanced AI/GPU-based processing involved? Many of these functions will cause the GPU to use huge amounts of shared system memory, sometimes causing the whole system to choke. This is outside Photoshop's own internal memory management.

     

    We're still talking about suboptimal and buggy behavior, but happening mainly in the interface between application/operating system.

     

    In many cases, a complete reset of preferences fixes these GPU memory drain situations, so that's always worth a shot. 

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