layered .tif files hanging up at 99%

[Stephen26681649puao]

I'm having issues with my .tif files hanging up for 11, 12 sec at 99% when saving. This might not seem like a lot but the volume at which I work it is adding 4 plus hours to my work day. The issue seems to disappear if I flatten my file first but I need to retain my layers for my work flow. Can anyone help with this?

[D Fosse]

Are you saving directly to an external drive? That is officially warned against by Adobe.

Save to local drive, then copy over.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/networks-removable-media-photoshop.html 

[Stephen26681649puao]

It happens even when saving to my desktop.

[Conrad_C]

Is ZIP compression on for TIFF? I think that might greatly extend the save time, especially the last few percent. I use ZIP with TIFFs to save space, but it’s sloooow.

[Stephen26681649puao]

I read that, but I'm saving with LZW compression but try with no compression and both hang up at 99% during the save.

[D Fosse]

So it stalls even with uncompressed tiffs? What about PSD/PSB?

Just so it's said, LZW was written for 8 bit data and does not work well on 16 bit data, where it will often increase file size, not reduce it.