After having to reformat my data drive after Photoshop PS created an undeletable 2GB file I would like to make the following suggestion since PS/CS might do it again.
Do not store PS generated files on your system disk or partition. Put them on a separate partition or drive. Reformatting and recovering from backup of a data drive is enough of a problem but a system drive rebuild is a nightmare.
Al Loeb
I seem to remember from somewhere that Photoshop has a 2 GB limit for the file size -- both for Macintosh and Windows systems. According to this techdoc from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/12dde.htm
"The performance of Photoshop is affected most by available random access memory (RAM) and computer processor speed. Other factors can also affect performance, such as the options you select, system configuration, and the built-in limitations of Photoshop. Photoshop supports a maximum file size of 2 GB and a maximum dimension of 300,000 x 300,000 pixels per image. In addition, Photoshop can access 2 GB of installed physical RAM. To work within these limitations and optimize performance in Photoshop, apply the following recommendations.
"Note: Photoshop CS allows for images with a maximum file size of 4 GB for TIFF files, and almost unlimited file sizes for images saved in the new native Large Document Format (.psb). Photoshop CS can only access 2 GB of RAM, so large files will need to use considerable scratch disk space. Large Document Format files cannot be read by Photoshop 7.0.x or earlier."
This does not discount the original issue: that the file could not be deleted by Windows XP. The OS might have a 2 GB limit (I doubt) for one file also -- I know that Mac OS 8.6 did.
So if you are using Photoshop 7 or earlier and tried to create a file larger than 2 GB, you might have run into a "Buffer Overflow" error within Photoshop that overwrote portions of your hard drive just beyond the 2 GB max. This possibly screwed up something with the file directory structure where Photoshop was saying it was 2 GB and the disk space was saying it was larger.
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