Photoshop 2020 hangs while saving on Windows 10

I have been having issues with Photoshop hanging or even crashing while trying to do a save or save as for the first time on an edited file. I think I see an issue, but do not know what to do to fix it.  I started watching Task Manger for Windows 10 as the time of my save (first file to be edited and saved after opening PS). PS starts reserving memory until it gets to around 17.4 GB. During that time, I am unable to rename the file or continue on with the save routine. Once it has reached the 17.4GB, the memory starts getting released according to Task Manager. Once it gets down to about 9GB or so, I am able to finish the save routine. Depending on the file size,this can take a little while. If I try to do anything during the allocation of memory, PS seems to hang. 

Any suggestions on what I can do to improve this?  I am using Windows 10 Pro, with 24GB of memory and 8 core AMD processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 display card.

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