I am still using VSD 5.6, which can paste an image directly into the workspace.

This week I took the chance to finally swith to VSD6, which has many advantages, expect the option to 'paste' an image no longer works.

Message = There is not enough memory. Please reboot computer and start again.

It is impossible that the memory is the problem here.

First of all I am using a really small test-image (68kb) and I the PC has following specifications (should be more than sufficient i guess):
Pentium(R) dual core CPU - 2.93Ghz
4GB Ram, - 500GB harddisk 7200RPM 16MB cache, graphic card GF8400GS

Any ideas?

What operating system are you using? If Vista or 7, have you tried running as administrator (right-click the icon and make the selection) or running it in XP compatibility mode?

Hi Monique,
seems I've seen this error before but I can't find it, but what needed to be done was that person needed to use an image editor to resave that image, I think it was a gif banner or something. could you try that.

I'm using XP Pro.

What I used to do, and still works in VSD5:

Open an image in Fireworks (Adobe photoshop-like software)
Do the necessary modifications (resize, put text on top, ...)
Preview in browser (IE7 because latest firefox does not allow image-copy)
Right-click, copy image
Paste in vsd

Both VSD5 and 6 are opened, result :
VSD5 : image is pasted
VSD6 : There is not enough memory. Please reboot computer and start again.

The only suggestion I have is that programmers look at the Pop-up error message to see what event could trigger this message to appear.

Some of my websites have large number of images and this way I can work much faster then every time save the images and then call them in VSD.

Hopefully, this can be solved since I do appreciate the other great improvements in the latest VSD versions (especially the line-heigt issue IE vs FF).

Reading this thread I can report same behavior w/ XP Pro.

I just bought VSD, and pasting a graphic was one of the things I tried early-on. I was surprised it did not follow the general practice of accepting a graphics image via clipboard. The "out of memory" didn't make any sense... usually if something doesn't work the message reports an incompatibility. The image I was attempting to import was very small.

However, learning that v5 used to have the image/paste functionality, I am encouraged that maybe this is a little hiccup. If somebody DOES figure out a way to do this, that is a very useful feature, IMHO.

CC, is there any update to this? I am using the demo to try and prove to my boss that we do not need to buy and learn how to use Dreamweaver, but I can not load our company logo. I can add all the other .jpg pictures I need, but when I load the logo (.jpg, .psd or .tif formats) I get the memory/reboot error too. I am running XP Pro.

Does anyone know a work around in the meantime?


Thanks, Meghan

That error is caused by missing EXIF information in your image. You need to simply re-save it in any graphics program and then re-add it to VSD.

Also try IrfanView at irfanview.com

I'm just now having the same issue with that error message. I'm running XP Pro and using VSD 6.0, build 6.

Up 'till today, and for the past eight months, I have been able to use screen capture software to transfer page size images into and within VSD. Today, I was able to do it once then the error message started showing up.

What's up?

John have you tried Scott's suggestion in the previous post?

Not yet, though I assume it'll work. Unfortunately, his solution is just a work-around that adds steps, time, and hassle without solving the problem. I'm not looking forward to it so I've been putting off the project.

What I can't figure out is why the issue cropped up in the first place after lying dormant all this time. I guess I can't figure out how to get it back to normal either.