Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Hi Damien! It's been a while! Here is my computer health info: I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 Home and Photoshop CC2022. It is 5 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its C drive has 124GB free out of 224GB. Its D drive has 912GB free of 931GB. The last time I shut down was earlier today. I run a cleanup program about once a week (I use Glary and Dell Support Assist). Here is my problem: I'm in the middle of a big batch of photos from an event (a masquerade ball, if that matters), and everything has been running as smoothly as it can with only 16gb of ram. I edit 10 files, I save my PSD's, I create my deliverables and save them, I shut down and reboot, I edit 10 more. That's how things work best right now. It's not optimal, but it's what I've got to work with at the moment. I was cruising along when suddenly I got a pop up box that said "I am unable to create a file in this folder. Please check your access rights to this location." I had already saved my PSDs, and my full res jpegs when this occurred. I was using Image Processor to batch resize and save smaller jpegs for web size when this happened. I tried saving as other formats and the same thing happened. I had to shut down and reboot. Once up again, I was able to save my small files in the file I had originally chosen. So far, I've checked my cache (it's on 4) and purged it, checked for updates to PSCC, and read over several articles online about this. But I trust you and want to see if you've encounter this yet and get your advice (other than to buy a larger computer - that's coming in December, hopefully). This is the first time something like this has happened on this machine. It's an AlienWare Alpha R2, and I can't install more RAM (I've already tried that - no slot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Is your Photoshop scratch disk pointing to your D drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 I set it up that way. Let me check and make sure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Uh oh... It's NOT! It's the C drive! I wonder if that happened in an update? Should I change it to D? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Both C and D, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 So check both boxes? G is my EHD where my files are being saved, if that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Both boxes, yes. Not G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Got it. C and D are checked. Rebooting now. Hopefully this solves the problem. If not, I'll ping ya again. Thanks so much for the fast reply! I need to get these delivered and I was in the home stretch (last 100 files) when this issue started. Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 I really hate your process. Edit one photo at a time, and save it as a PSD. Not this ten-at-a-time nonsense. Then run Image Processor on ALL of them at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 I'm confused what you mean...... For events like this one, I choose 10 files that have similar lighting in Bridge. Like this.... Then send them to ACR to do adjustments. Like this... Do my raw work, then open in PS. Finish up anything in there - look closely at each frame, maybe a levels or curves for pizazz if needed and add watermark. Then Image Processor> save as PSD in one file, and again to save jpegs to another file with resizing and sharpening for specific output. Jpegs are delivered, PSDs are kept. That seems to be the fastest I've found. Is that not right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 You don't have the computing power to get away with that. Only open the first raw photo. Apply the sliders, then press "Done". Then back in Bridge, right-click on that image and choose "Develop Settings>Copy Settings". Then select the other nine images (or however many it is) and right click and paste the settings. Then open them one at a time into Photoshop to do the Photoshop work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori G Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Interesting.... 🤔 I'll give that a try! Thanks for the tip! By the way....so far so good on the original issue. That pesky warning box hasn't popped up again (knock on wood). Just one more thing to check when CC updates along with color space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 PLEASE take the class. Your workflow makes me cry. https://www.damiensymonds.net/bridge-class/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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