Error:The data area passed to a system call is too small

Hello People. New to the forums here, I have an issue and i've searched but the search page didnt bring any results. and google wasn't much help either.

I always run batch processes with photoshop and on this new machine i recently built i get some "The data area passed to a system call is too small". I'm trying to determine if its the OS or Photoshop.

I have plenty of resources and i'm not sure what the issue is. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

It's Custom_Resize.exe, one of the DLLs it uses, or some "inspection" software you've got on your machine which injects itself into the Custom_Resize.exe process - your antivirus for example.

The error message means that the OS has detected a disparity between what it is being asked to do (the "system call"), and the size of the area where that action is to take place. It's like walking into a bar and saying "I'd like a pint of beer in a half-pint glass!" If the OS were to accept the request, its actions would take it out of the data area supplied (the beer would overflow), and that might overwrite another app's data or even BSoD the machine. Hence, in order to protect itself and other apps' memory, the OS detects the disparity and throws that error.

Bugs in "inspection" software are the most frequent culprit for this sort of thing. The AV might have accidentally altered the type of request to the OS or supplied another area by mistake. Otherwise, it's possible that the app itself is buggy.

Try doing this in safe mode, if Custom_Resize will run there (I expect it gets invoked as a Photoshop filter and Im not sure whether Photoshop itself will function in safe mode). If it does work in safe mode, I'd uninstall the AV as the next test.

fuser said:

Hello People. New to the forums here, I have an issue and i've searched but the search page didnt bring any results. and google wasn't much help either.

I always run batch processes with photoshop and on this new machine i recently built i get some "The data area passed to a system call is too small". I'm trying to determine if its the OS or Photoshop.

I have plenty of resources and i'm not sure what the issue is. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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If u are experiencing the error while saving or deploying, remove the "_" character in the file name and save it in your desktop or use shorter path like f:\.