Hi there, I've been working on an image for about 4 hours... (PHOTO PAINT X4) The screen is now frozen with a small box saying ''out of memory'' I haven't saved the file for a few hours - oh the pain of it! Can anyone help me? Or has all this work now gone. I now also have this message with no text, does anyone know what it might be and which button I should press!? Or is there some sort of shortcut to save. Thanks in advance.
Hello Bantam Fancier; Some times you can just wait a little while and it may start to work again, but if it doesn't and you have Auto Save turned on after the program closes you can restart Corel and it should say it has found a file. Click to open the file, you will have lost some of your work but not all. When you start working on a file click on the File on the left side of the upper menu bar, then select Save As and name the file file, you will see that name at the top left of the Corel window you are working in, then every min. or so hole down the Ctrl key and hit the S key. That will save the work to the file you made, and it will make a back up of the original file.
Good Luck, George
Many thanks George. yes, I will leave it open to see what happens. Any ideas what the warning box could be?
It is PROBABLY a Windows notice saying you have run out of ram, but it hard to be sure. I think I would click the one that normally it the OK, but it's just a guess.
George
If Windows can't display the fonts for the error message, that means that your memory system is full. It can be the RAM memory or the Virtual Memory /the swap file) or both. You can increase the virtual memory as big is possibe for a better performance an stability, or close unused program (some program are loaded at the startup and always remain resident on memory)
What operation did you last do? It might be sufficient to press the Esc key to clear the message, and then try to save the file.
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If that does not work, it may be too late, but if there is anything you can close -- any other program that's displayed on the task bar, including those in the system tray -- you may manage to free enough memory to save the file.
But some programs need more memory to close them, and others want to pop up a message confirming that you want to close them, which also needs memory. So, try to use programs that are likely to close silently. Firefox may close like this, if you have only one tab open.
Be careful not to close Photopaint, or to accidentally start a new program instead. A program that's pinned to the task bar may look as if it is running. Try right clicking on its icon. If it doesn't have a Close option, it probably is not open.
Also do not run the "safely remove hardware" icon if photopaint may have used an external drive.
When you've closed some programs, select photopaint again and if it still has the message popped up, try to close it with the Esc key. Control-S then stands the best chance of saving without using extra memory, followed by Alt-F4 to quit.