Just installed PS 6 – Warning: primary scratch and windows’ primary paging file on the same volume

"dave" wrote in message

The full warning reads:

You currently have Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’ primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary
scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical
drive.

Nice of them to tell us what menu to use to correct this. I couldn’t find any reference to this in help.
I pulgged these exact words into search and it didn’t find any reference

to

this.

I’m a computer programmer and I’d have failed any course I ever took in programming if I wrote a program that was
anything like this.

What’s up Adobe !!??

Does anyone know how I can set the volumes for Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’
primary paging file.

Certainly. It is part of the preferences which you will find under the edit tab. I found the reference in the help file under Scratch disk.

By the way, that is merely a warning. It is correct that PS will run faster if its scratch disk is different from the one which contains the Windows page file. However, its performance won’t be too bad if you just ignore the warning.

Jim

"Jim" wrote in message

"dave" wrote in message

The full warning reads:

You currently have Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’ primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary
scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical
drive.

Nice of them to tell us what menu to use to correct this. I couldn’t find any reference to this in help.
I pulgged these exact words into search and it didn’t find any reference

to

this.

I’m a computer programmer and I’d have failed any course I ever took in programming if I wrote a program that was
anything like this.

What’s up Adobe !!??

Does anyone know how I can set the volumes for Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’
primary paging file.

Certainly. It is part of the preferences which you will find under the

edit

tab. I found the reference in the help file under Scratch disk.
By the way, that is merely a warning. It is correct that PS will run

faster

if its scratch disk is different from the one which contains the Windows page file. However, its performance won’t be too bad if you just ignore

the

warning.

Jim

Thanks. I missed the Scratch disk part of preferences when I looked at it after I got the error msg. I just now set the first one to C:\ and the Second to D:\

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:23:03 GMT, "dave"
scribbled:

The full warning reads:

You currently have Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’ primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary
scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical
drive.

Nice of them to tell us what menu to use to correct this.

Nice of you not to look.

I couldn’t find any reference to this in help.

I found a reference when searching for ‘scratch’. Look harder.

I pulgged these exact words into search and it didn’t find any reference to this.

Look harder.

I’m a computer programmer and I’d have failed any course I ever took in programming if I wrote a program that was
anything like this.

You wish you could write something as successful as Photoshop.

What’s up Adobe !!??

Does anyone know how I can set the volumes for Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows’
primary paging file.

Please help. Thanks !

It’s in your preferences where Adobe expects you to look. If you’re not seeing it, look harder.

You know…. being a "computer programer", one would think you would have been able to…… well, nevermind.

In article <LJeXc.4180$Y%>, dave wrote:

By the way, that is merely a warning. It is correct that PS will run faster if its scratch disk is different from the one which contains the Windows page file. However, its performance won’t be too bad if you just ignore the warning.

Thanks. I missed the Scratch disk part of preferences when I looked at it after I got the error msg. I just now set the first one to C:\ and the Second to D:\

I think I disagree…

Photoshop is a very expensive and resource intensive program. Wouldn’t you want it to run as well as it can? Here’s what I did, you might consider something similar.

1.) Bought a full sized tower case
2.) Stuck a fan whereever one could fit
3.) Bought a cheap BusLogic SCSI card
4.) Bought two cheap 4 GB SCSI drives

The tower case, power and cooling let me run as many drives as will fit in the machine. I’m using a Maxtor 60GB IDE drive for booting Win/2k pro, and have another 3GB IDE drive partitioned into three drives to hold junk like games and mp3s. The two SCSI drives are single partitions and one is dedicated to the Win2k swap drive and the other is used only for Photoshop scratch.

They’re practically giving 50 pin SCSI drives away on eBay ( I see one auction selling five 4.3GB drives for $1.99 ) and a controller should be less than twenty dollars. Go for it!