Bruce Whittington
Well-Known Member
I received a message saying the "system has run out of application memory." This was after I tried to force quit Nikon View NXi (the poor replacement for the discontinued View NX2). The only other apps open were Mail and the Finder. I had been transferring a lot of files with a USB stick from this desktop to my laptop but was finished that. View NXi has been a real problem, crashing frequently. I cannot go back to View NX2 because I missed an update before I upgraded the OS to El Capitan. (NX2 works fine on my laptop, same OS, but on that machine I did the software update before I upgraded the OS.) I found some references to the application memory problem on line. Some say it is an OS problem but I wonder if it has something to do with the Nikon software. I am not too familiar with Activity Monitor but checked it and it showed (I think) app use of 7.3 GB of 8 GB available and the window was almost all yellow. When I did force quit the app, the memory usage dropped to around 2GB, and the yellow was gradually reduced and replaced by a green bar. Is this a known Apple issue and if not, are there steps I can take to further diagnose it? I am going to try a shutdown now and monitor what happens.