P: Cannot save because the document is bigger than 2 gigabytes

That means that you had a transformed mask that was huge, and were saving in PSD format instead of PSB.

Hey all!

I had the same problem a couple of minutes ago and the only solution I found was to apply all the masks and then save.

Hope this helps someone out!

I have same problem. File contains some small bitmap layers + simple vector smartobject. When I save to PSB, filesize is 83MB.

Win 7 64bit, latest PS CC

Hi Chris,

thanks for trying 😉 - but no, I re-verified - there was nothing wrong with the rect (if I could have saved it, I would have sent it for investigation anyway). I dragged everything to a new window - same problem; so PS was unhappy with something. I then deleted one layer after the other (unfortunately top-down, so the background rect was the last ;/)

The canvas (window) was setup to be 1920x1440px in size and I created/dragged the rect to exactly that size.

I don't know, if this is helpful, but there was one thing which I found mysterious:
- as I said, the window was 1920x1440px
- the rectangle was set to exactly that size, but at the right and bottom edges there was 1px missing and the window background shined through. When I moved the rect to fill out the whole window, the rect was 1921x1441px. And I verified a couple of times, the rect's origin was at 0x0px.
IIRC I had a similar problem a while ago, but dunno about the details anymore.

Maybe the problem was a coincidence of a couple of different things, but the Mac was freshly rebooted and only PS was running (as application).

I don't know if any of the above makes sense or is helpful in any way, but it may be related to the way I use SmartObjects (or linked documents), because that was what I was working on. (btw. I think I still have a former version of the doc, where the SmartObjects lost their references in a weird way: When updating one of the SmartObjects, only *some* of the other objects were updated (in my case 3 from 20) - I'll look tomorrow, if I still find this version).

Anyway - thanks for responding!

Best

Andy

Btw. since I'm doing UI all the time, everything in my settings is set to px - since 22 or 23 years (that's when I started using PS 1.0) 😉

Something about it had to be much larger -- did you confuse inches with pixels somewhere?

And the message means what it says - the file size exceeded the 2 GB limit for PSD files. There could be hundreds of possible causes of that, and no way to list them all in the message.

It was my background rectangle (live shape 1920 x 1440px - seems not extremely huge to me ;)). After deleting the layer and dropping a new live shape in, things worked again.
A better error-message would be helpful, though.

thx

andy

Something in your document is much larger than you think, and it overflows the 2 Gig limit for PSD when saving.

You can save to PSB that handles larger files - but the file is still going to be large.

You need to figure out what in your document is so large (possibly a layer mask, or a transformed smart object that goes WAY outside the document bounds).