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flashchap
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:57 am Post subject: scratch disc set up? |
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Ok I have a set up with two hard drives, 'c & d'.
when setting up my scratch discs within photo shop it gives me options of either ' startup/c or d .
Im slightly confused with this, do i need to have my first scratch disc as d drive as this drive is totally empty as all my apps etc are on drive 'c'
Any help would be really helpful.
Jamie
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witam
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| witam wrote: | Maybe this text i found can help you understand what scratchdisk is about:
What is Photoshop Scratch disk?
Something that can make your Photoshop experience a dream… this is something that every Photoshop users must know. When I started I didn’t but soon enough I fumbled my way through after damamging a few files… yes only a few.
Photoshop as most experienced users would tell you is a memory intensive program. If you do not have enough RAM memory to support it it can use your hard disk space. This is called Virtual Memory or better still — Scratch Disk.
The 2 very important things therefore to note when you work in Photoshop are:
1. available RAM and
2. available free hard disk space
Since Photoshop uses your hard disk for space, it therefore is also important that your computer should have good data transfer rates. If you are going to buy a separate disk just for Photoshop Scratch Disk make sure you buy one with higher transfer rate and high on board cache.
The common mistake people do while dedicating a scratch disk is they load it with data. You should never store any information on a scratch disk. It should be formatted and left totally unused. Storing data fragments a disk and that confuses Photoshop and causes delay while using scratchdisk.
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Hope this helps..
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flashchap
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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hey thanks for getting back to me on this topic,
After reading your reply I think I may have it set up correctly as the scratch disc I set up is free from any apps etc.
Many thanks again in your post.
Regards
Jaime
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witam
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