HELP! I'm getting ready to throw my computer out the door!

I am on a G4 using system 9.2.2. I have photoshop 5.5. Photoshop keeps jamming when I open a larger size file. It will open a smaller file. I have tried everything. I reinstalled. I allocated more memory for photoshop. I ran Disk Warrior. I ran a conflict test. I don't think it's the program becauce I reinstalled a different photoshop (different serial no.) and it still does the same thing. Does anybody have ANY ideas!!

dbarnett,
Sounds to me like the 'scratch disk' is too full. The scratch disk is essentially virtual memory for PS, above and beyond the memory allocated to it by the user. By default, PS automatically selects the main hard drive as the scratch disk. (This can be changed by the user.) Typically PS needs about three times as much space on the scratch disk as the file size. In other words, if your PS file is 10 megs, PS wants about 30 megs free space on the hard drive it is using as the scratch disk. If that space is not available, or the space on the drive is there but it is fragmented, PS will protest. The usual trick of increasing the application's memory allocation is no help here. In fact, increasing the memory allocation to the application decreases the space available for the scratch disk.
An easy solution is to create sufficient unfragmented space on the drive, but there are other solutions as well. Post back if you want to explore other avenues.

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