Not Responding

[bruce1951]

When I do a Save or a Save As I have about a 6 second lag then I get a 'Not Responding' message for about 6 seconds. Then back to normal for a few seconds, it saves and then all is working fine again.
These are on approx 300meg PL files with 4-6 layers.
I was wondering if this is 'normal' for PL or is it my computer having a coffee break!

Not the end of the world but it does wear thin when doing a lot of Saves.

bruce

[Gerhard Huber]

that's quite normal.
It takes much time to save so big files with PNG compression - the default compression for PLD files.
You can setup "PNG fast" to make it faster (or even no compression).

[bkh]

Gerhard was faster. Anyway:

Depending on the speed of your computer, this sounds normal – compressing large images takes some time. You may try to change the compression settings in Preferences -> File -> PLD – I normally use "PNG fast" because "PNG strong" tends to be much slower but file sizes don't usually differ a lot. Depending on your disk, "No compression" may be even faster.

Never tried "Fast save", I have no clue what it does.

You might also check if an antivirus program is at work in the background – they often delay writing big files when they check files being created.

Cheers

Burkhard.

[bruce1951]

Thanks guys. I had it set to PNG fast already. I was concerned that something may have been amiss. But now I know it's 'normal' I can stop worrying.

regards

[Martin Huber]

Never tried "Fast save", I have no clue what it does.

That's an option of the beta version. It will create the PLD in memory and write it afterwards as one large block. This is faster especially over networks, but may be slower, if memory pressure is high.

Basically, on saving PhotoLine is caching the compressed images. So if an image isn't modified between saves, the compressed data will be reused and saving is a lot faster.

Martin