Soph

Awesome stuff. I’ve actually got 2 of those so good to know I’ve bought right! Will just make sure to utilise them more. Donation made - hopefully enough to get a few bevies in! thanks again

Morning both, Thanks so much. Yes the new mac is inevitable I think. I'll certainly free what I can though in the meantime. That's very informative on the hard drives – apart from my time machine drive I don't usually have hard drives on while I'm working (I do intermittent back ups on any breaks), and even my time machine I only switch on at the end of the day to do a back up as I literally only have what software that I need open. Been a few red flags for a while thinking about it 🙈 Thanks again for the reassurance and insight. What can I do compensate for your time? Soph

Morning both, Thank you for your time already. @Damien Symonds all done as requested: "I have a Mac desktop running 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) and Photoshop 2023 version 24.5.0. It is over 4 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 106.63GB free out of 2000GB. The last time I shut down was last night. I run a cleanup program about once a month." To be thorough, I have just been supplied some very large files hence the low GB availability (I am currently doing back ups to free up space), but even when I had 400GB available it was still crashing. @Brian - This is really useful thank you. My mac is about 5/6 years old so I'm conscious I'm probably buying myself time until a new one is needed – especially as my work load and type has shifted/increased since originally buying it. Currently I have 23 items on my desktop (low file size items). Thanks again both, Soph

Hi Brian/Damien My computer keeps crashing and I recall updates to operating systems and/or Photoshop being the cause. My max memory is also very poor (16GB), so I know this will need to be updated. What I’m looking for is a temporary solution while I have a big project on. Operating system - Ventura 13.3.1 Photoshop - 2023 version 24.5.0 Any insight to the perfect combination before updates messed everything up? Or is it just my memory that needs to be sorted? Thanks in advance. S P.S. I’m UK based