scratch disk

Nothing. It’s a laptop, so there’s no second drive fo photshop to write it’s scratch files to. What can help a little is if you partision your drive into two – although this wont have anywhere near the same performance increase, it will have some as you can only allow Photoshop to put data there. A nice unfragmented volume (partision) always helps a little…

"dave r" wrote in message

I have just purchased a laptop with xp software. When i start up photoshop it pops up a box saying that all my
memory is on 1 drive and recommends sharing it on other drives. The laptop only has c drive so what should i do?

Defragmention… The Windows volume by its nature is going to be heavily fragmented. By having a big empty volume with nothing except the scratch file, it’ll run a little faster in theory I suppose. BTW, memory doesn’t negate needing a scratch file. I think even if you have a small file open (say, 2-3mb) PS will write a scratch file, even on a machine with loads of (512mb+) ram.

"Stephan" wrote in message

That’s what I heard to but I don’t see how it could help speed wise since you are not going to use the two partitions at the same time. The only thing really helping is having enough memory to not need a

scratch

disk; Knowing that memory is like money: you never have enough of it no matter what.

Stephan

"SpaceGirl" wrote in message

Nothing. It’s a laptop, so there’s no second drive fo photshop to write

it’s

scratch files to. What can help a little is if you partision your drive

into

two – although this wont have anywhere near the same performance

increase,

it will have some as you can only allow Photoshop to put data there. A

nice

unfragmented volume (partision) always helps a little…

"dave r" wrote in message

I have just purchased a laptop with xp software. When i start up

photoshop

it pops up a box saying that all my
memory is on 1 drive and recommends sharing it on other drives. The

laptop

only has c drive so what should i do?

moreover, with XP home edition, if you go above 1GB it’ll be a little lost, and will waste a lot of it,
and with the swap disk space management, you’ll find yourself with 1.5-2Gb of swap disk.
I’m on winXP Pro, with 1Gb of ram, and i’m finding myself with 3Gb of swap disk… so just beware of windows a little ;o) … if you’re on a mac you’ll be just fine … i hope ;o)

olivier

"Stephan" wrote in message

That’s what I heard to but I don’t see how it could help speed wise since you are not going to use the two partitions at the same time. The only thing really helping is having enough memory to not need a

scratch

disk; Knowing that memory is like money: you never have enough of it no matter what.

Stephan

"SpaceGirl" wrote in message

Nothing. It’s a laptop, so there’s no second drive fo photshop to write

it’s

scratch files to. What can help a little is if you partision your drive

into

two – although this wont have anywhere near the same performance

increase,

it will have some as you can only allow Photoshop to put data there. A

nice

unfragmented volume (partision) always helps a little…

"dave r" wrote in message

I have just purchased a laptop with xp software. When i start up

photoshop

it pops up a box saying that all my
memory is on 1 drive and recommends sharing it on other drives. The

laptop

only has c drive so what should i do?

wandpjacobson wrote:

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Mac user and frequently import photos to iphoto
I use photoshop and often when using a large number of photos the program locks and a box notes that scratch disk is full. Where is it and how do I empty it or make it larger.
Many thanks
Wells

Look in Preferences. That is where you set your Scratch disk location. Check it out in Help or in the manual.

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wandpjacobson wrote:

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Mac user and frequently import photos to iphoto
I use photoshop and often when using a large number of photos the program locks and a box notes that scratch disk is full. Where is it and how do I empty it or make it larger.
Many thanks
Wells

Look in Preferences. That is where you set your Scratch disk location. Check it out in Help or in the manual.

Buy more ram or open fewer images

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wandpjacobson wrote:

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Mac user and frequently import photos to iphoto
I use photoshop and often when using a large number of photos the program locks and a box notes that scratch disk is full. Where is it and how do I empty it or make it larger.

If you only have one hard disk, the scratch disk is that one hard disk, so you cannot make it larger (only create more room by deleting other files you don’t really need any more). If you have more than one disk, you can tell Photoshop to use those other disks as well (or even use them first).

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On 8/3/03 4:14 PM, in article 1fz4yoy.2u6iko1l3yr78N%,
"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote:

wandpjacobson wrote:

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Mac user and frequently import photos to iphoto
I use photoshop and often when using a large number of photos the program locks and a box notes that scratch disk is full. Where is it and how do I empty it or make it larger.

If you only have one hard disk, the scratch disk is that one hard disk, so you cannot make it larger (only create more room by deleting other files you don’t really need any more). If you have more than one disk, you can tell Photoshop to use those other disks as well (or even use them first).

Many thanks for the help. Question please: Is it appropriate to say thanks via the group or should replies be individual?
Again thanks
Wells

wandpjacobson wrote:

Many thanks for the help. Question please: Is it appropriate to say thanks via the group or should replies be individual?
Again thanks

Send it to the newsgroup. This way, everybody knows that the question has been answered.

Tim

Hi ;
On addition to the excellent answers
already given … When opening and / or working on a lot of files or functions…. every so often I use Edit > Purge > All . That will make Photoshop act like normal again. As I find tools & functions slowing down, I use that command & it speeds up again. A caution though …save your work before you do that because everything in your history will be deleted. Craig Flory

"wandpjacobson" wrote in message

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Mac user and frequently import photos to iphoto
I use photoshop and often when using a large number of photos the program locks and a box notes that scratch disk is full. Where is it and how do I empty it or make it larger.
Many thanks
Wells

I have a short scratch disc Q, so I’ll use your thread:

I have two hard discs, where the non-boot disc is the newer and faster and carries PS scratch disc.

I have read that it is better to keep the scratch disc off the boot disc as PS otherwise will have to compete with the OS, leading to performance loss. However, I have assigned virtual memory to the new and faster disc in Windows (2K). Will this also lead to performance loss? (ie should I force windows to use boot drive only as virtual memory even if it is a slightly slower drive?)

Ivan

Ivan Vogelius wrote:

I have a short scratch disc Q, so I’ll use your thread:

I have two hard discs, where the non-boot disc is the newer and faster and carries PS scratch disc.

I have read that it is better to keep the scratch disc off the boot disc as PS otherwise will have to compete with the OS, leading to performance loss. However, I have assigned virtual memory to the new and faster disc in Windows (2K). Will this also lead to performance loss? (ie should I force windows to use boot drive only as virtual memory even if it is a slightly slower drive?)

I guess there’s only one answer: Try it and see if there is any noticeable difference.

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Johan W. Elzenga jwe<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

I have two hard discs, where the non-boot disc is the newer and faster and carries PS scratch disc.

I have read that it is better to keep the scratch disc off the boot disc as PS otherwise will have to compete with the OS, leading to performance loss. However, I have assigned virtual memory to the new and faster disc in Windows (2K). Will this also lead to performance loss? (ie should I force windows to use boot drive only as virtual memory even if it is a slightly slower drive?)

Shouldn’t think so. Or very little, anyway.
Try it. Does it?