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Photoshop sucking up 6 Gb in just 2 hours?


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Sailia San

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Hi all you gurus!
I'm currently experiencing quite unusual problems when working on Photoshop.
I had 10 free Gb on my laptop prior opening PS, after couple of hours working on it I end up having only 4 free Gb left...which is obviously making my laptop unbelievably slow...:banghead:

Which troubleshoot would you suggest? :neutral:
PS please note that the images I'm working on are not to blame cause they're all stored in a external HD
Thanks!
 
Hi Paul thanks for the link.
Actually my problem is not with the RAM. The problem is that even when I shut PS down, I find myself with only 4Gb free left, while just 2 hours before i have 10, and I'm saving images on a external HD...
Couldn't find anything related to this issue in that link...
 
I've opened Photoshop just 2 minutes for trying purging and when I closed it 80Mb were already gone, not doing anything but opening and closing it.

I run a Mac so I'm trying with Bitdefender and the Security Update 2013...
 
This may be a stupid question when you open up photoshop are you also opening up creative cloud which could also be downloading and installing many more programs from the creative suite as a trial.
 
Nope, not using Creative Cloud, I uninstalled it months ago.
Bitdefender didn't find anything...

What's going on?! :banghead:
 
Sounds like adware / spyware. Photoshop should not increase program size
 
I'm not a Mac guy, but I suggest that after experiencing one of these incidents, search your entire HD for files that changed in the past 15 minutes and see what actually is changing. Be sure to include system and hidden files in your search. That will give you a much better idea of what's going on.

T
 
PS - If I had to hazard a guess, I would look carefully at the size of the scratch "disk" and similar files.

T
 
Sailia San said:
Hi Mike...BitDefender for Mac didn't find anything suspicious...would you suggest running some other software?
Thanks!
Click to expand...

I switched all my security over to MSE...free from microsoft. It has yet to let me down, and has caught a number of files that were dangerous.

I use nothing but MSE and in 17 months have not had ANY issues......Oh by the way it is free, and works on XP thru windows 8
 
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