Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin Burbridge wrote: > > >I'm using an early 233MHz G3 Mac with 96 MB RAM and a 2 Gigabyte hard > >drive. At times Photoshop complains the drive space is too small. > > Rest assurred that that this has nothing to do with your choice of > computer -- this is about PhotoShop's scratch files. > > PhotoShop wants CONTIGUOUS FREE SPACE on your hard disk -- you can > have bits of free space on your hard disk which add up to a large > total amount of free space, but cannot be used by Photoshop to store > its scratch files. And by the way, you'll want to have free space > that is several times as large as the files you open in Photoshop -- > try to keep at least 500mb free, one gigabyte would be more like it. > > Also, giving PhotoShop more memory is always a good idea, but > Photoshop always creates scratch files and they will always need > large amounts of contiguous free space on disk. That's what I thought but there is another thing which could be the culprit if his harddrive was already optimizeed recently and that is Image Cache in the prefs. It is normally set at 4 but if he has it set at 8 or 1 he could be getting funny memory warnings. Mark Rabiner