Using photoshop blowsup the Pagefile.Sys file

[Michal S. S]

HI,

I'm working on a large scale document, and it seems like photoshop is really not handeling it well.

Every one in a while I cant save my work due to "“Could not save as [Your Filename] because the document exceeds the 2.00G limit for saving Photoshop files." error.

That is, actually, ALWAYS because the photoshop creates Pagefile.Sys in the size of 17GB.

Once I get rid of it, all goes back to normal and I can save the file again.

How can I prevent any of this to happen?

[Guest]

Hi

Have you tried saving them as .PSB

Pagefile.sys is part of the Windows operating system and has nothing to do with Photoshop

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

pagefile.sys is a system file. All your virtual memory is in there. If Photoshop uses more virtual memory, naturally pagefile.sys will get bigger. Nothing to worry about, but make sure you don't try to assign more than about 70% of RAM to Photoshop in its preferences, for best performance.

The 2GB size limit is nothing to do with memory, virtual memory, RAM or disk space. It is a limit on the size of PSD files. As stated, use the new PSB format instead.