Elizinator Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) so yesterday, i was modifying textures with my Photoshop contentedly. they worked in-game, and no problem was found. today, phtoshop will not under any circumstances allow me to save to DDS. every single attempt - and there have been dozens - crashes the program. saving from a PSD failed. merging all layers failed. copying merged layer onto a DDS, merging and saving fails. not merging fails. hell, loading a DDS, and attempting to save without modifying it fails. i know this isnt technically a skyrim problem, but i KNOW photoshop gets a ton of workout from the modding community, and i am using it to mod skyrim in my limited capacity. can anyone help me so i can get back to tattooing my character? :C EDIT: in failing to save, it generates a hell of a lot of .temp files. deleting them didnt help. Edited April 11, 2012 by Elizinator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrivener07 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Maybe your saving to a readonly folder. idk ive never heard of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshiap Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Elizinator, Maybe you can try uninstalling and reinstalling the .dds plugin. Additionally, do a disk cleanup for whatever drive you are using as the scratch disk. If you want to go even further, perhaps perform a diskcheck and choose to correct any errors for that drive. This would potentially solve any hardware issues. I hope this helps. Good luck. Y EDIT: Just had an after thought. Make sure that you are allowing Photoshop to use enough memory. You can change this in the settings. Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizinator Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) the first response was correct, i was trying to save to a read-only folder. i didnt make it read-only, it just become that way one day. in fact, EVERY folder is. and i cant disable it. disabling it, the next time i click properties, it is re-enabled. this is apparently a much bigger problem than just photoshop. this might explain why the texture optimizer i ran yesterday failed to change a single texture, and produced weird results. anyone know how to ACTUALLY change folder settings? i cant seem to do it by, yknow . . . changing folder settings. EDIT: reinstalling didnt do anything either :C Edited April 11, 2012 by Elizinator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shantih Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Weird. Are you using Vista or Seven? It may have to do with Administrative rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizinator Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) Weird. Are you using Vista or Seven? It may have to do with Administrative rights. Win7 EDIT: giving it access to 100% of the ram didnt fix the problem either. still, its base setting was almost 2gb, which ought to be enough. Edited April 11, 2012 by Elizinator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizinator Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 HUZZAH! i got it. it was connected to the texture optimizer i was using, and related to its failure. it was CAUSED by its failure. the reason i couldnt save to the folders was because the file i was trying to save FROM was being read by the optimizer, which though i had closed, left an operation running. the optimizer's coder apologized this morning for "debugging at 5am" and posted a new one. i couldnt install the new one because the files it was trying to replace were in use. so i ended the tasks, and loaded up the PSD. now i have successfully produced a .dds from it, and i will proceed to install the new optimizer. thanks everyone for your help! =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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