As it turned out there must have been some underlying OS problems. I had already trashed the PS prefs and run the various repair utilities with no luck. Did a clean install and seems to be working fine now.
I do like the chicken feather approach though, hadn't thought to try that. I did stick a few pins in my computer voodoo doll though. :-) > Okay, let's got back to the basics. > > Delete the Photoshop prefs file. Be sure to reset the preferences when you > start PS > back up. > > If you have a disk checking program (ie, Norton, Disk Warrior) run it and see > what > happens. You never know. > > Restart and rebuild the desktop. > > If you're using a jpeg as a desktop pattern, switch to a solid color. > > If you're on a network, make sure you're not saving to a network disk. > > Make sure you have no extension conflicts. > > Does this happen on all files or just the 15 meg in question? If it's just > this > file, try saving a copy of it and work from that. > > Put a chicken feather, two string beans, a beet, a six-inch piece of black > thread > and a pinch of fennel into a brown paper bag. Wave the bag over the CPU while > chanting "Gates Is Good, Gates Is Good, Gates is..." oh wait, that's for MS > Servers. Never mind. > > rob > > Beth Ernst wrote: > >> I dropped Photoshop's memory requirements back to about 40MB. The file in >> question right now is only 15MB and there is over 1GB free on the hard >> drive. Opening, closing and saving files is horribly slow now. >> >> Beth >> >>> Beth: >>> >>> I remember reading somewhere that Photoshop had it's own virtual memory >>> system >>> and changing the memory partition was actually detrimental. >>> >>> Try resetting it closer to the recommended size and see what happens. >>> >>> The only other thing I can think of is the state of the scratch disk. Is >>> there >>> enough blank space to hold a file three times larger than the one on which >>> you >>> are working? >>> >>> rob >>> >>> Beth Ernst wrote: >>> >>>> Hello great Mac gurus, >>>> >>>> Another problem and this one may bring back some fond memories of days and >>>> systems past. >>>> >>>> I have a user on OS 8.1 running Photoshop 5.5. She originally had 128MB of >>>> RAM with 30MB assigned to PhotoShop. Virtual memory is turned off. She was >>>> working fine speed-wise but began getting messages about not having enough >>>> memory so I removed one 32MB chip and replaced it with a 128MB. >>>> >>>> Now she has 224MB total RAM. I assigned 100MB of it to PhotoShop. She is >>>> only running PhotoShop and Quark (with about 30MB assigned to it). Now when >>>> she is in PhotoShop it is performing slower than it did prior to adding >>>> memory. Any suggestions as to why and what adjustments I can make to >>>> correct >>>> the problem? >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help! >>>> Beth >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> -- >> Thanks! >> Beth >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > -- Thanks! Beth | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
