I have Photoshop CS and am having a problem with the tools. When I open the App the tools work fine but after like 20 minutes or so I will click on a tool and move the mouse cursor over to the document to work on it and will only get my regular mouse cursor. In order to remedy this problem I have to save my work, shut down Photoshop and start it up again. Then I have about another 20 minutes before it freezes again. Can anyone help me identify this problem and fix it?
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Cursor and Tool problems.
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It is the regular Windows arrow, or sometimes it is the two ended arrow that you get when you want to resize a window. And yes, when it 'freezes' (which I am aware is not the right word but it is the best description I could come up with) none of the tools work at all. It isn't my memory on my computer or anything because I have a 90 Gig hard drive and 525 megs of ram with an Athalon XP processor. And it isn't the Caps Lock key because I checked that too. I have re-installed Photoshop and that didn't help either.
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Try turning everything else off when your using photoshop (including stuff running in the system tray). You may be getting some sort of conflict with another piece of software. It's a long shot but other than what barehug has suggested it's all I can think of.
Your scratch disk is a space on a Hard drive for temporary storge of Data.
By default, Photoshops' scratch disk is the drive where it was installed(Startup), so if it was installed on a small partition then the scratch disk will be small.
Ideally (in Preferences>Plugins & scratch disks), you would point it to the largest partition or the root of your c:drive; or even better a drive solely for the Scratch disk.
Also make sure the scratch disk (any hard drve as well) is regularly defragmented, this will mean photoshop will be able to store and retieve data faster.
Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.
By default, Photoshops' scratch disk is the drive where it was installed(Startup), so if it was installed on a small partition then the scratch disk will be small.
Ideally (in Preferences>Plugins & scratch disks), you would point it to the largest partition or the root of your c:drive; or even better a drive solely for the Scratch disk.
Also make sure the scratch disk (any hard drve as well) is regularly defragmented, this will mean photoshop will be able to store and retieve data faster.
Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.
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FlashManBurgess
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I am experiencing the exact same issue. I have 2GB ram P4 3.0Ghz. Plenty of hard drive space and scratch disks are set correctly with over 80GB of free space. This really annoys me, sice I have to completely quit out of Photoshop and relaunch, only to get a few minutes of functioning time.
How come no one has suggested to reset preferences yet? That would have seemed like the most logical first step to me.
Maybe everyone is just tired of repeating the same advice over and over.
Click here if you don't know how to reset prefs:
Maybe everyone is just tired of repeating the same advice over and over.
Click here if you don't know how to reset prefs:
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