Norm Dresner wrote:
> Okay, let's say I've been using CS2 for a day or so, doing various
> things. This morning:
>
> 1. I close all the images I've got open and open a scanned JPG image.
> It's a 2-1/4" square image at 2400 DPI which, after minor cropping,
> is ~73 MB.
>
> 2.I create an Adjustment Layer for Levels and make the necessary
> changes.
>
> 3. I save it as a .PSD file with the 2 layers
>
> 4. I try to save it as a .JPG file. I get the dreaded "Insufficient
> Memory to save ..." message.
>
> 5. I close Photoshop and reopen it.
>
> 6. I load the saved .PSD, flatten it, and successfully save it as a
> .JPG
>
> Okay, I know that Photoshop caches some stuff, so I've set the Cache
> Level in Preferences to 2 instead of the original 6. I've told the
> program to use all of the available memory (100%) which it calculates
> as 907MB (it's really a 1GB memory but I guess Win2K doesn't allocate
> all of it to programs).
>
> It's obvious that Photoshop would have had sufficient memory to do the
> original save (#4) if the program's caches had really been empty as
> they were when I reopened it. Is there anything I can do between
> images (or while I'm editing an image) to empty the caches or am I
> stuck closing and reopening the program. This is especially
> important because I've been screwed being totally unable to save an
> image in any format after working on it for a while.

Have you tried the Purge>All in the Edit menu?

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