…primary Scratch & WIndows Primary paging files (Ap7.0)

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Bernhardt_Moore
Aug 2, 2004
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I get the following message when opening Photoshop 7.0 suggesting some of my files are misbehavin’: "You currently have Adobe Photoshop’s Primary Scratch & Windows Primary Paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended you set Adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different drive."
1. What is a Scratch paging file? or any paging file?
2. What can’t they get along?
3. How many different hard drives are we supposed to carry?
4. How do I do this?
I am working through Ch. 3 of Adobe Photoshop’s "Classroom in a Book." My skills are minimal,my knowledge fragile, so talk/write slowly if you can help me:)
Thanks,
Bernie
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BobLevine
Aug 2, 2004
If you only have one harddrive, you can safely ignore this message. Note that is just that…a message, not a warning.

If you have more than one, have a look through the forum. It’s been discussed many times.

Bob
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Pierre_Courtejoie
Aug 2, 2004
A paging file is some space on your hard drive that can be used to increase the amount of RAM your computer uses. But hard drives are way slower than RAM. Photoshop Scratch file is more or less like a pagefile, with the difference that the scratchfile is Photoshop’s prime memory, and the assigned RAM the cache for the scratch file.

If you have several physical hard drives (not partitions) you can move the location of Photoshop scratch file to another disk than the one used by Window’s pagefile. To do so, you need to go in Edit>preferences, under "plug-ins and scratch disks"

If you have only one hard disk, disregard this message. Adobe recommends to use a different hard disk, so the pagefile and the scratch disk won’t compete to read or write something, resulting in delays.

The more hard disks, the best… if you could afford it, (in money, and in space/connectors inside your PC) you could then set one disk for windows, one for its pagefile, one for Photoshop’s scratchdisk, one for the source images, and one for the destinations images, etc… but one is enough… and two are better 😉
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Uncle Vinnie
Aug 2, 2004
Bob..
I had the same thing happen, and someone here helped with the same advice….
Any way to turn that message off? Seems it started happening when peeking into the Preferences menu….

<Bob_Levine> wrote in message
If you only have one harddrive, you can safely ignore this message. Note that is just that…a message, not a warning.

If you have more than one, have a look through the forum. It’s been discussed many times.

Bob

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