Did I Out Grow Front Page?

Out Of Memory?

[Hardwood Guy]

Sounds like several of you guys use FP and it's nice to see you keeping those that like to badmouth it at bay. I have alot of content on my site and only 165 pages but recently I'm getting..

"An unexpected error ocurred. Not enough memory available to complete the operation...."

Can anyone explain this? It's not like it shuts down FP. I just click ok and continues, but every time I open a page the same message appears.

[pageoneresults]

Is it possible that you've got too many programs open on your system? Is it Windows? When was the last time you rebooted? When did this start happening? Lots of questions. It probably is not an FP specific problem.

[Hardwood Guy]

Yes. Windows. Just rebooted. No other programs running. Started about a week ago. Same thing happened on my laptop where I have another site.

[pageoneresults]

How large is the page you were working on when the error happened? Do you have a large chunk of content sitting on your paste board? Probably not, but it is one of the areas to check.

I can't find anything specific to FP and the error you quoted. Were those the exact words of the error? Was there anything else?

[Hardwood Guy]

Do you have a large chunk of content sitting on your paste board?

No

"An unexpected error ocurred. Not enough memory available to complete the operation. Close other programs to make more memory available and then try again."

Size of page? 44 kb...only one page open.

[pageoneresults]

I don't think it is FP. Something is hogging up your system resources and causing that error. Have you scanned your systems for scumware? If you get enough of those nasty little programs running, they will steal resources, especially on systems with less processing power.

Did you install any FP Add-Ins in the last week? Are you running any sort of script from that page that is executing while editing the site?

[pageoneresults]

Another question...

Have you installed any fonts on your systems in the past week? How many? If you have an unusually high number of fonts installed on your Windows system, there could be out of memory issues.

What do you have running in the background? Check your task manager.

[Hardwood Guy]

Did you install any FP Add-Ins in the last week? Are you running any sort of script from that page that is executing while editing the site?

Scripts? I'm not even familiar with the stuff...so the answer must be no. No other fancy plug-ins etc. Just a two week old PC that has all the bells and whistles. Haven't seen any scum stuff.

[pageoneresults]

Just a two week old PC that has all the bells and whistles.

Windows XP and FP 2003? I envy you. ;)

[Hardwood Guy]

FP 2002. Yes XP

[Hardwood Guy]

Bedtime. Thanks and keep the q's coming...there has to be a solution?

[pageoneresults]

So many different things could be happening. The thing to do is check your Task Manager and see what programs are running at start-up. Maybe there are too many opening. I'm going to assume that you have at least 1.5GHz and 256MB of RAM which should suffice for almost anything you throw at it.

I'd also download the free version of AdAware and scan your system just to be on the safe side. If you don't have a program like AdAware in place, you will have issues to contend with regularly. Popups of course being one of them.

[slade7]

MS Outlook does this to me all the time. After I close it, for some reason it hangs and doesn't close... so I open it again and close it, etc... have to go into the task manager and kill, kill, kill.

I'm sad to say that my home machine is a 400mhz pentium II running windows 98, so this may not be a prob in XP, although my experience with MS is: newer system == newer problems.

[richlowe]

1) Check the size of your page file. By default it's way too small. I typically make mine 1gb.

2) See what services are running, and if you know what you are doing stop and set to manual the unnneeded ones.

3) See what adware has been installed and zap it with adaware or similar product.

4) Make sure your machine has at least 512mb of memory, I prefer 1gb.

5) Make sure programs like realplayer are not active in memory until they are run. Realplayer and other programs like to create instances that are pre-loaded to save load time, but this takes memory.

That's what I can think of in a few minutes.

[automotivetouchup]

When I had 256mb of RAM, FP gave me problems. I bought a new PC and upgraded to 1.25GB and It runs perfect. Nothing crashes, less or no errors. FP uses a lot of system resources, it is a powerful program too. If you have too many pages open, it can take up to much of your ram too.

[eWhisper]

I've got one site that I still edit with FP that's over 2000 pages, and that computer isn't what someone would consider newer...

This has been a problem for several people w/ XP - not sure if it's yours or not - but always good to know.

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