insuffiecent memory

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I have have been making slideshows of the pictures from my vacation. I
normally never have this kind of problem with WMM. I have done some projects
that are way more complicated than this-ie. pictures and video.
I have broken the project down into about 20 different slide shows. The
first one had about over 200 pictures. I had problems saving it. It was all
Jpegs. I did some research and converted the Jpegs to Bitmap-that seemed to
solve the problem.
As I did each slide show, WMM starts getting slower and slower. It takes
a long time to import the pictures. It takes a long time to place the
picture on the storyboard sometimes-then a message will pop up saying that it
has completed the task.
My last slideshow is only about 30 pictures. It tells me I have
insuffienct memory when I try to save the project. (Then, the project ends
up appearing in my My Videos folder). I restarted WMM and was able to save
the project. Now, when I try to save it to my computer it says it has
insuffiecent memory to perform the task or something like that. (I have
tried saving ti as best option for playback on my computer and as dv-ave, and
I get the same error.) WMM is the only application I have running. I have
plenty of room on the hard drive. I am not having problems when I surf the
net. How can I resolve this issue quickly? Do I really need more RAM? If
that is the problem, I have no problem getting more RAM. But I have more
slideshows to make and I have to show them at a party tomorrow night so I
need to have this problem fixed quickly.
I am at work right now and I am talking about my home computer so I can't
tell you any more details other than it is a Gateway computer that I got last
year.
 
Shane_1969 said:
I have have been making slideshows of the pictures from my vacation.
I normally never have this kind of problem with WMM. I have done
some projects that are way more complicated than this-ie. pictures
and video.
I have broken the project down into about 20 different slide shows.
The first one had about over 200 pictures. I had problems saving it.
It was all Jpegs. I did some research and converted the Jpegs to
Bitmap-that seemed to solve the problem.
As I did each slide show, WMM starts getting slower and slower. It
takes a long time to import the pictures. It takes a long time to
place the picture on the storyboard sometimes-then a message will pop
up saying that it has completed the task.
My last slideshow is only about 30 pictures. It tells me I have
insuffienct memory when I try to save the project. (Then, the
project ends up appearing in my My Videos folder). I restarted WMM
and was able to save the project. Now, when I try to save it to my
computer it says it has insuffiecent memory to perform the task or
something like that. (I have tried saving ti as best option for
playback on my computer and as dv-ave, and I get the same error.)
WMM is the only application I have running. I have plenty of room on
the hard drive. I am not having problems when I surf the net. How
can I resolve this issue quickly? Do I really need more RAM? If
that is the problem, I have no problem getting more RAM. But I have
more slideshows to make and I have to show them at a party tomorrow
night so I need to have this problem fixed quickly.
I am at work right now and I am talking about my home computer so I
can't tell you any more details other than it is a Gateway computer
that I got last year.
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You could start the the following article:

MM2 - Problem Solving - 'Can't Save A Movie'
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-CantSaveMovie.html

This sounds like resource issues...more RAM
would certainly be worth a try. I don't know how
much you have but 2 GBs should make an
improvement.

Increasing the size of your Virtual Memory
Paging File may help also. The following article
explains how:

(308417) HOW TO: Set Performance Options
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308417

Also...deleting temporary internet files may
help...

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Thanks, John. I started running a defrag before I went to bed. When I got
up this morning it was only at 35%.
I found that article about the Virtual Memory paging file after I got to
work today. Does anyone know if doing that speeds things up so i wouldn't
need the extra RAM? I am really pressured for time right now.
 
Shane_1969 said:
Thanks, John. I started running a defrag before I went to bed. When
I got up this morning it was only at 35%.
I found that article about the Virtual Memory paging file after I
got to work today. Does anyone know if doing that speeds things up
so i wouldn't need the extra RAM? I am really pressured for time
right now.
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You didn't mention running Disk Cleanup...
that can help free up some memory
if you have lots of temp files.

If Defrag is not running correctly you
may have system issues that are beyond
the scope of this newsgroup.

Increasing the size of your paging file
may help but probably won't be significant.
Installing more RAM would probably be
worth the effort and expense but if you
have system issues you will still need to
correct them.

Maybe the following will help for now...

Before opening Movie Maker...disconnect
from the net, close all programs...especially
virus scanners.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
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