Photoshop Out of memory - Crash
Last night I had an experience with Photoshop I haven't seen before (certainly never before v 19)...
Regular PC, 5820 running 4.5GHz, 32 GB memory, everyone important on a 1TB SSD, images on a 6TB 7200 rpm hdd, GTX 970 video, Windows 10, 64 bit. Very ordinary editing box. Photoshop is 19.1.3 - as far as I know, the current version.
Image was equally ordinary - normal 14-bit NEF from a Nikon D850.
From Lightroom, opened an equally ordinary image into Photoshop and applied some edits, then saved it back. Worked fine, nothing interesting.
Opened the second image. Did a little cloning, fiddling - NOTHING big, no additional layers, NOTHING INTERESTING. After finishing the editing - probably 10 minutes of fiddling or so, hit "Save" and got a popup SOMETHING LIKE "Cannot save image, not enough memory".
I've gotten this before (never BEFORE version 19, but periodically since then) when doing a few panoramas or equivalent, where Photoshop can't finish doing whatever, though at the moment I don't recall the exact popup.....
THIS TIME, it sat a few seconds and BOTH SCREENS WENT BLACK and DIDN'T COME BACK. Ctrl/Alt/Del - no response. Trying to switch screens NO RESPONSE. it's dead. HDD LED flashed periodically but the system is black on both screens and NOTHING works...
When I rebooted the system there was NO AUTORECOVERY FILE.
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Box has 32 GB of memory. Photoshop is set to 21149 MB, which is the top end of the "ideal range". Other than Lightroom, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE GOING ON.
I HAVE THE SCRATCH DISK SET TO a 6TB drive with 4TB available to Photoshop. A SECOND scratch disk is pointed at ANOTHER 6TB drive with at LEAST 3 TB available. I'm NOT OUT OF SCRATCH SPACE.
Previously I got a similar message a few times when it was just churning around a panorama BUT Photoshop DIDN'T CRASH/HANG/BLACKOUT. I just had to shut it down and redo the panorama. THIS TIME, I had to reboot the system and go back through the whole editing process. I need a fix 'cause having Photoshop PUKE all over itself regularly is going to get REALLY aggravating really fast (ok, it's already really aggravating)...
Ideas? And please, do everyone a favor and don't waste time telling me that "my system never does that". I need to know WHAT settings I need to change so this STOPS happening. And even better, how to tell Photoshop is about to exceed something and FAIL BEFORE it happens so I can shut it down and restart it.
