Photoshop CS2 on XP, can't save 'not enough RAM'

[bdog2020]

Hi All,
I've got 4GB RAM in my machine. I open a 28MB document, that's a decent size, with about 10 layers.

I note the temp file becomes about 500MB with a few edits, but is 350MB the minute I open the file.

XP reports 250MB or so RAM used by Photoshop, but I think it must be counting that temp file when it tells me it can't save 45 minutes worth of work?

What's the deal?

I'm using defaults of 55% available RAM, and I can bump that up after I close and lose my changes, but my real question, is how can such a small file have a TEMP file of .5GB with just a few small edits?

I tried purging my history and merging all layers, to no avail.

Any other thoughts? Thanks for reading this far!

--MB

 

[spamjim]

What image file format are you saving to? Do other formats present the same error?

 

[bdog2020]

I've only had the problem with PSD's.

 

[mscallisto]

Do you get any specific error codes pointing to which API is failing?

If yes you can submit to

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx

where Adobe engineers and others are very helpful.

sam