On 14/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >If you have to swap to disk, then putting the Photoshop scratch space >on a different physical drive takes some of the pain away. But it's >far better to have enough memory in the first place, and never going >to disk at all. Even the fastest disk transfer speed is still much >slower than main memory speeds. Try to get more memory first; a second >drive is a palliative, not a solution.
As I understand the way Photoshop works, this is not correct. It is not the user that decides if Photoshop has to swap to disk, it is Photoshop. And it will readily do so depending on a number of factors including levels of history vs file size etc. I am prepared to stand corrected, but I am pretty certain that it works this way. Hard drive speed is not as important as some indicate; Photoshop craftily utilises the Scratch Disk(s) to enable optimum performance. Using a second drive is very important - selecting the startup disk as a Scratch Disk will slow performance. Fire away! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
