Photoshop Elements Version 8.0 with MAC OSX 10.8.5 stops working / crashes.
With Phtoshop Elemens Version 12 better but still stops working / crashes too.
I am working with big amount of data. I tried to use purge via terminal which helped a little but I am not satisfied. With elements 12 it became more stable but today it crashed agin. I am hearing a high sound when the program crashes. Might be that the SW is trying to read from memory or hardrive. I have to start complete computer when it occurs. It is NOT a hardware problem that's for sure.
I am assuming something with memory allocation or RAM ?!
With Phtoshop Elemens Version 12 better but still stops working / crashes too.
I am working with big amount of data. I tried to use purge via terminal which helped a little but I am not satisfied. With elements 12 it became more stable but today it crashed agin. I am hearing a high sound when the program crashes. Might be that the SW is trying to read from memory or hardrive. I have to start complete computer when it occurs. It is NOT a hardware problem that's for sure.
I am assuming something with memory allocation or RAM ?!
Posted 5 years ago
There is no crash report. Photoshop elements stops working without any report. Mouse pointer is changing to color wheel and doesn't come back until I type "purge" into the terminal window in MAC. Sometimes it recovers, most of the time not.
Then it hasn't crashed. If it crashed, there would be an OS crash report dialog, followed by the Adobe crash report dialog. What you are describing is a hang or freeze of the application. Crashes and Freezes are very different behaviors (as different as "car stalled" versus "car exploded").
And purge is a command to purge the OS file buffers -- so if that makes the app recover, then there is most likely a problem with your disks or a network filesystem.
And purge is a command to purge the OS file buffers -- so if that makes the app recover, then there is most likely a problem with your disks or a network filesystem.
Thank you for you answer. I am not in a network file system. I do not think that there is a problem with the hard drive. Because if I restart Photoshop Elements 8.0 it freezes at startup at "Memory is dimensioned".
When I restart the MAC everything works fine until the next freeze occurs when I am working on my photos.
When I restart the MAC everything works fine until the next freeze occurs when I am working on my photos.
Yes, that means that there is a problem with your system.
Most likely it is a problem on the hard disk. Use Apple's disk utility to check and repair your disk. You might also want to make sure that you have a good backup of your disk, in case the disk is going bad.
Most likely it is a problem on the hard disk. Use Apple's disk utility to check and repair your disk. You might also want to make sure that you have a good backup of your disk, in case the disk is going bad.
