Explanation please

When I reloaded PS7 it told me the following:

Your primary scratch and windows primary paging file are on the same drive which can result in reduced performance – it is recommended that you set Photoshop’s primary scratch volume on a different volume, preferably a different drive etc etc

I believe them

I just have no idea who to do it and where to put it etc

This laptop’s config is:

3.2gig processor
1gig ram
80gig PLUS 40gig on board

160gig external

No idea if this helps, but if someone could guide me through what to do it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Steve

You have 3 drives – 80, 40, 160.
By default, PS places the scratch file on c: (startup).
PS is recommending that you place it on another volume.
A volume can be another partition or another drive.
So open up your preferences: Edit|Preferences|Plug-ins & Scratch Disks
You can set up to 4 scratch disks. Set your First to be your fastest drive on another controller (if SCSI/PCI), your USB external drive as Second, and your primary drive as Third.
Others may have different configs with better explanation than mine.

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When I reloaded PS7 it told me the following:

Your primary scratch and windows primary paging file are on the same drive which can result in reduced performance – it is recommended that you set Photoshop’s primary scratch volume on a different volume, preferably a different drive etc etc

I believe them

I just have no idea who to do it and where to put it etc

This laptop’s config is:

3.2gig processor
1gig ram
80gig PLUS 40gig on board

160gig external

No idea if this helps, but if someone could guide me through what to do it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Steve

thanks heaps

do I nominate just a drive or do I give it a folder/directory etc?

You have 3 drives – 80, 40, 160.
By default, PS places the scratch file on c: (startup).
PS is recommending that you place it on another volume.
A volume can be another partition or another drive.
So open up your preferences: Edit|Preferences|Plug-ins & Scratch Disks
You can set up to 4 scratch disks. Set your First to be your fastest drive