won’t recognize external drive as scratch disk

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elainebenson
Feb 4, 2007
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Photoshop CS2 running on Mac — just bought Crossfire 232GB Firewire external hard drive. hotoshop does not recognize it as a scratch disk (Illustrator recognizes it fine). Any ideas? thx
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Ann_Shelbourne
Feb 4, 2007
Try re-launching Photoshop after the FWD shows-up on your HD. If that still won’t work, try trashing your Photoshop Prefs..

Using a dedicated first partition on a second Internal HD would be a better option if you have one.
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Ram
Feb 4, 2007
Elaine,

Has that new external FW drive been properly formatted as a Mac HSF+ volume?
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Ann_Shelbourne
Feb 4, 2007
Another thought:

Does your User Account have Administrator privileges?

If it does not, you may need to set your Scratch Disk in the Get Info dialog to "Ignore Ownership on this Volume".
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elainebenson
Feb 6, 2007
thank you! It WAS the formatting — it works fine now. Many thanks.

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