Photoshop crash problem...

[3rdspace]

Within the last week PS7.0 has been crashing, saying that 'there is not enough RAM to open the Color Book.' What is this and why would it start to say this when I havn't knowingly changed a thing???
I run a dual 2 Gb G5 with a 1 Gb of RAM, OS 10.3.4 (recent update) I've configured the memory from 50% - 90% and it will still happen. It happens when I transform multiple layers at the same time, it happens when I'm trying to open files. It seems only larger file are effected so far, ones more than 30 Mb about.
It gives me the error message and then crashes!
I've repaired permissions and it still happens

[ylaenna]

I found this in the Adobe forums:

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Shez - 04:00pm Mar 15, 2004 Pacific (#4 of 7)

Have you any custom colours in your swatches palette?

I was having this problem with Photoshop CS, OX10.3, the problem turned out to be some earlier photoshop version custom colour swatches that I had previously created and then loaded into my CS swatches palette.

I reset and replaced the swatches to the default swatches. Reloaded and resaved the custom colours into a new CS swatches .aco file and the problem seems to have been solved.

RIGHT YOU ARE, KEN!

[3rdspace]

OK so I've just reset the colors and so on BUT .aco are specific to swatches, and .acb is specific to the color books. (PMS etc)
My error message is specific to the col. books rather than swatches
I'll see if theres a way to reset the books...

[ylaenna]

I also read a couple other suggestions in the Adobe forums where they say you should run a bunch of updaters on Photoshop. You should search there and see; there may be other solutions. Good luck!

RIGHT YOU ARE, KEN!

[Scott Brewer]

I was having the exact same problem with Photoshop 7.0.1. I did all the reinstalls and updates with no success. I reset the color swatches and poof! the problem went away. Go figure.

[blathermoore]

I'll pass along the color swatch issue to my husband, but I'm not sure this is our issue. Can anyone help? Photoshop CS (most recent Mac OS) just seems to crash a lot. Can't seem to find a pattern. It also seems to run really slow at times. Repaired permissions, but that doesn't help for long. Anyone know of any known issues?

thanks!!

Thanks for that tip it was happening to me about two weeks ago but I have no idea what I did about it, for all I know the problem is still happening somewhere in that mysterious 120Gb Hard drive I call home.

[Silence04]

i used to have problems with ps7 when i first installed it, but after installed the update for ps7 then downloaded the latest OS X 'Combo' Update from the apple site i didn't have the problems anymore

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