I’m having to reset my setting once a week because files will all of a sudden not open. Doing "Cmd+Option+Shift" works, but I shouldn’t need to do this so often.
Any ideas what the issue might be?
Question #2: I have PS CS1, with 768mb of RAM, will buying more give a noticeable performance boost? I’m tired of waiting for the preview tiles to build in files over 40mgs. I could swear I didn’t have this problem 2 years ago.
8gb of free space, I have a external Lacie HD and 16gb of space reserved for PS’s secondary scratch disk. Making it the first option ran sluggishly. Cache levels are at 6, using 69% of memory available.
I just started running iDefrag about once a week. I’d read many good reviews so I thought it might help my speed issues. Not really helping.
Ok, I’ll try that. I probably need to add another 512 of RAM, if that will help?
What about my main issue,
"I’m having to reset my setting once a week because files will all of a sudden not open. Doing "Cmd+Option+Shift" works, but I shouldn’t need to do this so often."
I have a external Lacie HD and 16gb of space reserved for PS’s secondary scratch disk. Making it the first option ran sluggishly.
In addition to the normal maintenance (cache cleaning, etc), there is a chance that this firewire drive is causing some troubles too. Eventhough it is your "secondary" scratch, if the firewire connection is flakey, it could be causing Photoshop to hiccup on startup.
40G of working hard drive is super small, just enough for apps and maybe a few working projects at most. If you want to keep your computer and make accommodation simply do as has been recommended here. You don’t say how large the external drive is. I would use the external as mainly a ‘dumping ground’ for the projects you are not immediately working on. Whatever, it’s going to be like living in a two room apartment with each job like adding another roommate.
40G of working hard drive is super small, just enough for apps and maybe a few working projects at most.
As others have said, you need more RAM and a bigger hard drive.
8GB of free space just isn’t adequate. PS is not the only part of your system what utilizes caches or needs free space (the OS, apps like InDesign, etc.)
How hard is it to replace the interal drive in an eMac? If it isn’t difficult, get yourself at least 250GB. You can get a 250GB Seagate from outpost right now for $80.
Be sure you eMac can see the drive over 137GB old Macs have a built in limit and need an extra PCI card to see the extra space. I would buy the biggest drive I could.
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