"salt" <@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
you currently have photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’ primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced perfomance. It’s recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch volume to be on a differeeent volume, preferably on a different physical drive.
Can someone interpret this message for me in English Please?? What is it that I am suppose to do? I don’t know what it means.
Hi there.
Plain English, I will do my best but I come from that much more civilised country, which is just to the North of England.
This jargon means that photoshop will run better if your Computer has 2 hard drives.
Windows Primary Paging File, is where Windows runs its Programs, in this case Photoshop. That will be on your Main Hard Drive (or Boot Drive), usually called "C".
If you fit another Hard Drive into your machine it will get allocated another letter, perhaps "E" or "F".
If you have 2 Hard Drives. In Ps go to Edit > Preferences > Memory & Scratch Discs.
For First Scratch Disc select the Letter for the extra hard Drive, "E" or "F" or whatever it has been allocated..
For Second Scratch Disc select the letter for your Main Hard Drive, usually "C".
The reason, (very uncorrect terminology), is that Ps is a very heavy user of RAM, and when your actual RAM is full, it makes a Temporary File, where it writes and reads data as it does its calculations. It can work quicker if that Temporary File is the only File on a Hard Drive, simply because no other data will be travelling along the same route.
Putting more RAM into your machine will speed up Ps more than fitting another Hard Drive. The minimum amount of RAM needed by Ps is usually taken to be 5 times the size of the largest image you will be working on, but the more RAM the better.
Roy G
