Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.software Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!whirlwind!ricardo From: ricardo@newsserver.seas.ucla.edu (Ricardo C. Lagos) Subject: Re: Corel Photoshop problem. Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:35:11 GMT References: Organization: Bare Power Performance Systems X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 39 Duane Drummond (drummond@cuug.ab.ca) wrote: : Can anyone offer any suggestions to the following problem: : I just got some photos put on a CD. I loaded one of those photos into Kodak : PhotoEdge, at size 2048 x 3072. Because I only have 8MB RAM I utilized my : Virtual Memory to create enough "fake" RAM to load it up. Once it finally : loaded up I saved it as a .tif file. And after it was finally saved as a : .tif file I exited PhotoEdge, and entered Corel Photo Shop. : From Corel I then attempted to load up the .tif file (it was about 18 : megs big). Somewhere Corel PhotoShop experienced a problem. Whatever : problem it encountered it effected my hard drives in a strange way. It : told me my drive c: only has 32MB (though it had approx. 98MB before I : started this process). It also said my drive d: had 55MB (though it had : 85MB before I started the process). I immediately erased the 18meg .tif : file, and did a warm boot, and but there was no change. So then I did a : cold boot; it seemed to reset something because my drive d: (where I : keep my dos games) now said it had 85MB again, but my drive c: reamined : the same (still saying it has only 32MB). WHY?! : My drive c: is where I keep all my windows and applications. : My drive d: is where I keep all my DOS games. : Thanks for any help. : D.D. : drummond@cuugnet.cuug.ab.ca .. this might be your problem.. if you had just created the Virtual memory. .. if you seleceted to create a virtual drive on your C: drive and made it permanent then Windows will make that Space "Disappear" from your drive.. and it actually is a huge hidden file. (the virtual RAM).... .. try disabling your virtual memory.. and see if the HD space comes back... Ricardo