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Cerus

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Oct 22, 2010
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Springwood, NSW, Australia
Hi Fellow Ancient iMac Users,

Please can someone let me know how to fix the following error:

As I was working on 50MB images in Photoshop5.5 on my old iMac Five Colours, and I was having to save after every command, I (rather stupidly:eek:) tried to change my Available Memory to the maximum of around 17000.

The poor dear decided to promptly shutdown. I restarted, as this seems to fix 90% of old iMac problems.

As it was opening the desktop and only two windows, it came up with this warning:

"There is not enough memory to complete this command. Please try closing some opened windows or restarting computer. Closing open windows might increase available memory." There were two buttons: 'Restart' and 'Retry'.

I tried clicking on both, to no avail:(

I have also tried to telephone my Mac Guru friend, stage name "Blue Nexus", but he has other plans, just like Despicable Chang in Dr Who!

I would greatly appreaciate any constructive ideas! I need to get started on the work for a friend on Photoshop tomorrow...

Thank you.:apple:

Patrick - Cerus
 
How much memory does your HDD have free? Does disk utility show your HDD to be working properly?
 
It's been a while since I've used the old OS, but I believe if you boot while holding Shift, you'll be able to reset the memory setting back to normal.
 
To TMRaven

How much memory does my HDD have?

I thought about your question and have decided to fill you in on the following details:

This is what my memory control panel says:

Defult is ON and set at 5472K

Virtual Memory is ON: Available for use on disk: 486K
Available built in: 171M
After restart (Maximum): 486M

RAM Disk

ON - Greyed out!*

OF - Greyed out!*

Save contents to disk on Restart and shutdown is TICKED.

RAM disk size: 20736K
(Aprox. 10% of RAM capacity)

When I try to open Photoshop 5.5, the following Disk Error appears:

Cannot open this application due to disk error 2

I checked the Photoshop 5.5 Memory Info.

The suggested size: 23637K
minimum size: 23637K
Preferred size: 23637K

Thanks for your assistance TMRaven!

Patrick
 
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