[filmscanners] RE: my XP laptop is driving me crazy

["" <david_bookbinder@sprynet.com>]

As I understand it, the conventional Photoshop wisdom is to put the scratch
disk on the fastest hard disk and also not put it in the same partition as
the Windows swap file. If you can't use the FireWire drive, you might
consider creating a partition either for the Windows swap file or the
Photoshop scratch disk.  See, for instance, "Real World Photoshop" for more
details on this.

- David

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From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Dave King
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:44 AM
To: david_bookbinder@sprynet.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: my XP laptop is driving me crazy


From: <doogle@doogle.com>


>> because I'm using it for scanning until I can get the desktop
>> upgraded. Actually, scanning isn't the problem (the processor is an
>> Athalon 1.2 gig), but Photoshop keeps crashing when running big files.
>> RAM is maxed out at 512 gig

>assume you mean .5GB, 512MB

>You got PhotoShop RAM use set to 75% or less of total RAM?
>Giving it 100% can cause crashes, not enough left for OS and etc.

At 75% now.

>>.... I have Photoshop's scratch disk pointed
>> to an external firewire drive with lots of room.

>Does it crash if you just leave scratch disk set to internal HD?
>Yeah, I know it *should* work ok, but...

That's a good suggestion, I'll try it and see.  Thanks.

Dave


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