Sluggish computer after intense use of PS

I think I’ve asked this question before but I can’t remember the answer, would someone be kind enough to help!

After doing lots work in Photoshop (scanning, image manipulation, etc.) my computer begins to get real sluggish, and the only way I can bring it back to full speed is to do a restart. I have 512 megs of ram and I never get an ‘out of memory/low memory’ warning, can someone tell me what might be going on and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks!
Ray
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I was afraid someone might ask me something like this 🙂 It is set up however it gets set up by default when you install the program, and I do remember seeing a warning suggesting that the scratch disk should be on another drive, other than the ‘C’ drive, but I just ignored it. Is this maybe my problem?

I was afraid someone might ask me something like this 🙂 It is set up however it gets set up by default when you install the program, and I do remember seeing a warning suggesting that the scratch disk should be on another drive, other than the ‘C’ drive, but I just ignored it. Is this maybe my problem?

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:14:32 -0700, "Lunaray"
wrote:

I was afraid someone might ask me something like this 🙂 It is set up however it gets set up by default when you install the program, and I do remember seeing a warning suggesting that the scratch disk should be on another drive, other than the ‘C’ drive, but I just ignored it. Is this maybe my problem?

Jim answered, but I would also look into Memory and image cache, my Mem usage is set at 70% and I avoid running other apps at the same time.

Smeltsmoke

Thanks again! I did check my cache and it was set to 50% so I changed it to 75%, I also set up my scratch disk so that it’s on my back up drive (F), hopefully the changes will solve my problem! I de-fragged too!

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:14:32 -0700, "Lunaray"
wrote:

I was afraid someone might ask me something like this 🙂 It is set up however it gets set up by default when you install the program, and I do remember seeing a warning suggesting that the scratch disk should be on another drive, other than the ‘C’ drive, but I just ignored it. Is this maybe my problem?

Jim answered, but I would also look into Memory and image cache, my Mem usage is set at 70% and I avoid running other apps at the same time.

Smeltsmoke

That’s sort of like Nancy Reagan’s answer for the homeless: "Just get a house"

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Just reboot.

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:14:32 -0700, "Lunaray"
wrote:

I was afraid someone might ask me something like this 🙂 It is set up however it gets set up by default when you install the program, and I do remember seeing a warning suggesting that the scratch disk should be on another drive, other than the ‘C’ drive, but I just ignored it. Is this maybe my problem?

Jim answered, but I would also look into Memory and image cache, my Mem usage is set at 70% and I avoid running other apps at the same time.

Smeltsmoke