Crashes when transfering files:

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Bill

Hi,
If anyone could help please.
I am a photographer and use my computer mainly for storing
and editing Digital images.
I have had this problem for a while now.
If I use a 128MB compact flash card and fill it with
images of around 3MB each then download to my computer I
have to do it around five at a time, using USB 1,
otherwise the process stalls and will not recover, and
when I try to close it I get the dreaded "This program is
not responding....." and then everything stalls and I have
to turn off the computer from the mains and restart.
I can download the images eventually but it takes quite a
bit of time.

The problem becomes much, much worse if I try to download
from a 256MB card, I cannot view thumbnail views to see
which ones i need to save so have to use file view and
open with eplorer to view, if I do this a couple of times,
same problem as above, and trying to copy more than 1 at a
time is hopeless.

I only have a small hard drive of 15GB but have a second
drive of 18GB. I have 256MB RAM.
I know I need to get a much bigger hard drive but hesitate
in case the problem lies elsewhere.

I am using windows 2000 pro upgraded from ME.
This is my third USB card reader, same problem with all of
them.

I tried copying all the images to CD but when I go to open
them from the CD I have exactly the same trouble.

I apologise for the length of this post but if anyone
could help I would be very grateful, to say the least.
Many thanks,
Bill.
 
You DEFINITELY need more memory! You can go to any
computer store and pick up a card that holds twice the
amount of memory for a decent price. It is REALLY easy
to install too, just plug it in. A new hard drive
probably wouldn't hurt. Yours is pretty outdated but the
memory should help.
 
Hi,

I would think for the virtual memory problem, may be the
page file is corrupted.
First check how many free space are on the C drive and D
drive. If both the HDD have more than 2 GB free space,
try this way:

Right click My Computer/Properties/Advanced/, click the
settings button in the Performance area and then click
the Advanced tab. Click the Change button in the Virtual
Memory area. Hightlight the D drive and then select the
Custom Size, input 384 in the Initial Size(MB) box and
768 in Maximum Size (MB) Box and then click the set
button.
Again, highlight the C drive and select no page file then
click the set button, click the OK button and reboot the
computer.
After reboot, repeat the same step to add back the
pagefile for the C Drive with Initial Size 256MB and
Maximum Size 512 MB and reboot.
Now, you have page files on both C and D drives.
Try transfer the file using the card reader to see if
there is any improvement.

BTW, if you use photoshop 7.0 for picture editing, you
should have at least 1.5 GB free space in C Drive. Or,
for best performance, install photoshop 7.0 on the D
Drive.

After all, run clean disk and defrag for both HDDs.

Hope it helps.


Peter
 
Thanks for your help and advice,
Michelle,
I am at the maximum of 256MB for this machine, unless
there is a way round this?

Peter,
Thanks for your advice, I have done what you suggested but
unfotunately the problem persists, I still have 7GB on C
and 8GB on D, I was hoping there would be a way I could
make the card reader open on to the D drive to bypass the
problem on C, if there is a problem and it is not just
lack of memory, as Michelle thinks.
I obviously need a new machine but I would have thought
over 7 GB and 256MB would allow me to do what I need for
now?
Once again thanks for your help.
Bill.
 
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