Opening a lots of large tiff files.

[chr500]

Hello,

I have a job to do. It requieres me to open around 40.000 tiff files. Each file i around 1-2 GB. Some of them have to be rotated and saved, but mostly I just have to check that they looks ok and close them without saving them.

Im using a fijutsi computer with these specs.
Windows XP Pro SP2
Photoshop CS2
3,4 ghz HT
4 GB Memory
250 GB SATA HD.
All the files is placed on a external 2-TB Lacie HD. Running on a another computer with FireWire 800.
Im accessing all the files over a 1 GB network.

It runs mostly good, but Photoshop is using a lot of memory when it opens the file, but when im closing the file photoshop still using a lot of memory. Its not dumping the memory.

It takes about 6 minuttes to open a 2,2 GB file. Not LZW compressed.

Can anyone please tell me if there's another and maybe smarter way to do this job.

Would it be a good idea to install XP x64?
Is there any patches to make photoshop run faster?
How do photoshop open the file over a network?
Copying to scratch disk and open in memory or what?

Thanks a lot.

Christian

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

This may be a silly question but why are you using photoshop as a viewer?
It's a very heavy app to use just as a viewer and if it's not releasing memory properly then surely that's even more of a reason not to use it for viewing.
There are many lightweight image viewers available. Why not try a few of those and see how you go.
Can you not just use the "My Documents" or "My Computer" browser to check the images out? Does it display them?


Trojan.

 

[barehug]

Try Irfanview as a viewer - there is a 'set external viewer/editor' command(shift+E) that you could use to send any of the images that need editing, to Photoshop.

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[ticke]

This new option is new to me to but since you're running XP, in the folder, if you right click on the image there is actually an option to rotate the image.

I have to try it myself but I saw it not too long ago but didnt bother to try it yet. Maybe it is just my imagination.

heh.

-Ticke