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CAVelarde
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February 13, 2026
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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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    nikunj.m
    nikunj.m
    Legend
    February 18, 2026

    Hi, thanks for reaching out! 

    If you are still experiencing the same behavior, please go to the Help menu in Photoshop, then System Info, and copy the text. You can share the info with us by either pasting it as a reply here or in a text file and sharing the file with us. 

    You can try optimizing the preferences of Photoshop using the steps suggested here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

    Also, check if Photoshop is added to Full Disk Access and has permissions to Files and Folders. You can check out the steps here: 

     

    Let us know how it goes! 

    Thanks, 

    Nikunj 

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    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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