Illustrator CS3 .. ran out of memory..

[Christop...@adobeforums.com]

Hi,
I've a problem with my Illustrator CS3. I've an about 400MB big *.ai-file which I want to export as an *.esp.

But when I try to export the following message appears:

Header: VersionCueUI.DLL
Message: The application ran out of virtual memory.
Please close some windows to free memory.

Illustrator is the only running programm.

The problem is a kind of strange cause I exported the same file yesterday without any problems. I just deleted a few images out of the file. So it's also a bit smaller then yesterday.

Technical details:
Windows XP Professional 32 Bit
2 GB RAM

I hope anyone can help me

Thanks in advance and greets from Germany

Christoph

[tma...@adobeforums.com]

Check the amount of space you have left on your scratch disk. It's probably full or nearly full.

[Christop...@adobeforums.com]

I've 320 GB left on the drive I save the file to

[tma...@adobeforums.com]

It's not the drive you save the file to that's the problem. It's the drive you have set as your scratch disk.

[Christop...@adobeforums.com]

I selected this drive as scratch disk.
On my system drive I've 10GB left.

thx
Christoph

[Harron_K....@adobeforums.com]

It's the drive you have set as your scratch disk.

Not according to the error message: "The application ran out of virtual memory. Please close some windows to free memory."

I would take that error message to be accurate and increase Windows virtual memory (aka page file).

[Christop...@adobeforums.com]

I allready increased the page file to 4096MB (thats the maximum)

[Tom_G...@adobeforums.com]

I also have a user who has this same problem when trying to save a file, I have also increased the Virtual Memory to its maximum but it doesn't seem to have resolved the issue.
The machine is not actually using 100% of physical memory when trying to save the file, is this possibly a bug?

[Harron_K....@adobeforums.com]

...is this possibly a bug?

Yes.

[Sergei...@adobeforums.com]

"4096 (thats the maximum)"
No, 4096 is not the maximum in Windows XP Pro (or Home). I have three 'puters here on XP Pro with 2GB RAM each, and all three have been running with page file size 6144GB quite successfully. Just to verify that there is no "maximum" other than the capacity of the Page Drive, I'm running this computer right now with 1TB page file size.

Regardless, I have had success solving this particular problem by simply rebooting the computer, and then exporting.

[Ben_M...@adobeforums.com]

It sounds like Version Cue, which works with the save dialog in Adobe applications, is having problems. Look at <http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403266>. While the document is for a different error, the solutions in the document will probably fix the issue

[Christop...@adobeforums.com]

@ Sergei Urlof:
in my case it's the maximum. If I try to set a larger size, there appears a message which tells me that the max page file size have to be larger or equal to the initial value and smaller than 4096MB. (I don't know the exact message in english)

@Ben McMahon:
I'm going to read me through your link when I find a few free minutes here.

[Br...@adobeforums.com]

so what's the latest, Chris?

[flibbert...@adobeforums.com]

Bump! I have a user experiencing this same behaviour when exporting a large-ish .ai file to .jpg format. The file size that triggers the error appears to be somewhere between 24 and 50 megabytes. We've done everything but cook the current CS3 installation and start over. Anyone? Bueller?

[Juergen...@adobeforums.com]

Ok, my english is realy bad...

I have had the problem to export a 400mb graphics from illu to jpeg.

My solution is:

export to bmp (about 290MB)
start the bmp with photoshop
save as *.jpg

and it works :=)

I want to leave corel draw. That are my first impressions... :=((

Notebook, 2,8hGhz, 2GB, 500MB

Vielleicht ist es jetzt doppelt...