The same thought had occurred to me. I may end up testing the memory, but my feeling is that if that were the problem, then surely another program would have hit it as well and I'd have seen a hang or a BSOD. BSODs are not unknown, but are rare and haven't seen one for quite some time.
@Kelly - interesting about Print Tool. I'm mostly on Windows of course and so don't use PT in the ordinary course of events. The potential problem with channels and saved alpha masks had occurred to me as well, but as previously mentioned, removing them didn't seem to help. When the error is absent, having them doesn't seem to cause a problem. Thanks anyway.
---In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, <mick.sang@...> wrote :
Brian, I was just wondering about your issue and thinking back on a somewhat similar issue that I have faced in the past with large files. The intermittent nature of the issue makes me wonder if you might have some weak RAM in your computer? Of course, it may not be. Just a thought. But, it is something that I would consider looking at, based on the fact that a 100 mb file can trigger the error but a 400 mb file won’t and it is good one minute and bad the next. I may be reaching here. But, I think bad RAM could cause this and might be worth testing.
Mick