Slow opening files psd/psb

[Conrad Castelo]

I don't know if I'm expecting too much or there is a tweak or issue. I believe I have a pretty decent machine.

OS: Windows 10

CPU: Intel Core i9-7900X

RAM: 32GB (12GB in use at time of file open)

System storage: Intel Optane SSD 900P running at full PCIx 3.0 x4 @ 15% free space

Photo storage: Samsung 970 Evo running at full PCIx 3.0 x4 @ 46% free space

Photoshop CC 19.1.5

Lightroom is also open in the background

It takes about 9 seconds to open a 740mb file and about 34 seconds to open 3.2gb psb. This is when Photoshop is already open.

I'm thinking both files should open at least at half the time. Am I expecting too much?

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Conrad,

We're sorry to hear about the slow performance of Photoshop while opening files, could you please try the steps mentioned on this article and let us know if it helps with the speed?

Optimize Lightroom Performance - Optimize performance

Regards,
Sahil

[Conrad Castelo]

Hi Sahil,

Thanks for the response. I believe my issue is purely with Photoshop, not with Lightroom. I'm opening a psd/psb directly from within Photoshop (files that show up in the recently opened list).

[AEC JPM]

Hi 2018.

Hereäs a message from the future, 2023.
Now PS takes five minutes to open a local small icon file from a local directory.

STAY IN 2018! Things only gets worse here.

[claudiaw40269]

Lol Can confirm...

I just tried to open a 2GB .psb, which should contain a single background layer, and Ps crashed after freezing my whole system for about a minute or so. Stay where you are, Doc Brown is coming to help.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What have you done for all-purpose trouble-shooting so far?
Restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved might be a good starting point:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/basic-trouble-shooting-steps.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html

Photoshop should not freeze the System, so there may be other problems involved. 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

If your files have many layers, that sounds about normal. Layers take a long time to compress/decompress.

If these are flat files, then yes, that's very slow.

You can try this setting, at the expense of bigger files (up to 2x or more):

[Conrad Castelo]

That was it! There's a huge performance increase at the expense of larger file sizes.

9 seconds  (741mb) to 2 seconds (1.2gb) psd

34 seconds (3.2gb) to 9 seconds (8.0gb) psb

So the decompression is what slowing everything down. Makes sense. I wasn't aware of this.

I don't think I can afford the new file sizes of 2x to 3x.

[kiloj757Nexus]

Hey sorry to dig up an old thread. But, I have a 15GB file that is taking over 10 minutes to open even with Compression turned off. Is there any other tricks or tools I can use to open and edit quicker? TIA

[DR5FCA]

I have the same problem.  Both opening and saving take a lot of time.   This was not a problem in the past. I have increased the amount of RAM available for PS but that has no effect.  I literally have time to do a short workout while waiting several minutes.  It's great to keep in shape but I'm trying to get some work done.

Any solutions will be much appreciated.

[lisac32611685]

me as welll... but no workout 🙂

[mglush]

Hi! Here is a post that D Fosse posted just a short time ago that might help:

Photoshop Becomming slow with large document format.

Let us know if that helps!