"The Data Rat" wrote in message
"Stephan" wrote in message
"Ztron24" wrote in message
i’ve noticed my photoshop is running quite a bit slower than it used to. i’m not sure quite why, i’ve got a fast machine. i close out other applications and purge the history and it still seems to be taking an extraordinary amout of time to redraw zoom-ins and apply filters. any suggestions on how i can speed things back up?
Is your scratch disk almost full?.
Did you add lots of fonts?
Is it only Photoshop or all apps on your machine?
Stephan
That is funny that someone mentioned this. My PS7 has become VERY slow also. I am fairly new to PS. Could you explain the scratch disk a bit
more
and how to empty it? For that matter, purging the history too. Every
once
in a while, I get a message about the scratch disk when PS7 forst loads,
but
I have ognored it since I have no idea what it is. 🙂
The scratch disk is a drive or partition you allocate to Photoshop for swapping files.
When the task you ask PS to perform doesn’t "fit" in the RAM, PS "drops" bits there to pick them up later.
Of course swapping (writing/reading on/from the drive) takes longer than handling things in the RAM.
To speed things up PS asks you if you have another drive than the one the application is on to use as a scratch disk.
Now if you have EIDE drives (most likely) it won’t make any difference to have your scratch disk on another drive *IF* he second drive is on the same channel.
Your machine cannot use the two at the same time!
(You can tell by following the cable, there are usually two channels on your motherboard).
Anyway, check sometimes and look for the temp files (scratch) PS creates and do some cleanup.
The files are in the "~PSTxxxx.tmp" format.
If you find very large files go buy more RAM.
Stephan
