photoshop CS5 out of memory in bridge?

My machine went belly up last week. the C drive HDD died. on reinstall, when I run Photoshop CS5 bridge to view the RAW, when I try to save them, it craps out after 4 or 5 images and says it's out of memory.

before the crash, that didn't happen. I have 10GB of cache set, thumbnails go to the drive and all the settings are as they were.

any other suggestions to get it working the way it used to be?

Close Bridge, hold down the Ctrl key and start Bridge. You should see a reset window, choose all three options.

Have you installed all available updates?

Failing that, uninstall Bridge and reinstall to see if that fixes it.

Tip: Install a second identical drive and configure a RAID 1 array to dramatically reduce the possibility of this happening again.

Eh? :

Sounds like the reinstall has installed the 32bit of windows rather than the 64bit which limits the memory to 3 gb IIRC which is why you are running out of memory.

What's your query?

Perhaps it wasn't obvious, but I was referring to the hard drive failure, not the Bridge problem.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/

to expand on my system settings.

I have a primary boot drive of 128GB SSD. pagefile is set on that to 10gb minimum with 15gb maximum and I have 75GB of free space on it.

H: drive is a 320GB Western Digital SATA drive with 200GB free. the cache locaton for bridge is on H:. cache for photoshop itself is on C:

I have set the bridge and photoshop cache sizes to 12GB and told photoshop to use 75% of available memory.

I have 4GB fitted but as I am running the 32 bit version of windows 7, can only access 3.2GB of it in total.

prior to the crash I have never had this problem at all. it is only with the reinstall. photoshop and bridge have all the same updates on as previously.

I get a similar issue with Adobe Bridge CS3 on my Windows 8 64-bit laptop, running 8gb of RAM, especially if I use the magnification tool thingy in Bridge. I've never re-installed anything, I have a 1TB drive with masses of room on it, not sure what my cache settings are.

Regards
David

I mistakenly installed 32 bit windows on my last windows machine which had 16 gb of memory and Lightroom was always running out of memory, went back to 64 bit and problem solved. PS and bridge and Lightroom love lots if memory.

Yup. I originally had 6GB of memory and run lightroom in 64bit Win7. Always slowing down, got painful. I filled up the motherboard with the max 24Gb and never had a memory problem since.

I use 4GB of that as a RAMdisk. I then point the cache and temp folders of my software to it. Saves reading and writing to physical drives and is a helluva lot faster.