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Hi, my partner is having problems with brush and eraser presets turning themselves off... when she changes tools, and changes back, the shape of the brush size has changed to the precise mode, when she looks in the preferences it still says she in brush size mode, only way to fix it is to actually reboot, closing and opening PS doesn't fix it....... does she need more scracth disk space, she has 7 gigs only for photoshop, separate partition. How much space do you use for scratch disk??
Anyone have this problem, and know the answer, she's just done a defraged c and her scratch disk partition, any other suggestions...
(rant) This is a very very common problem because for some strange reason Adobe set that thing to Caps Lock, something people inadvertently leave on a lot (/rant)
7 gigs for a scratch disk should be more than enough, unless your friend works with many huge files open at the same time.
There is a option to check the efficiency of Photoshop (attachment)
The importance of a large scratch disk is highly overestimated if you ask me. Many people who I ask why they need a 10GB scratch disk, can't come up with a really good answer. Scratch size, efficiency and timing...they all help you to improve the performance of Photoshop, yet few people use that information.
Other important thing to know for people who have win2k/XP;
Press CTRL+Shift+Escape; this will show the task manager.
Click on the performance tab, look under Physical Memory (K); beside the word "available" you will find how much physical memory is available (very important information).
If you always have hundreds of MB free on your system under any circumstances, then there's isn't any need for a large scratch disk.
hey didn't know that Gaus...... just quickly opened ps and a recent doc...... efficiency says 97%........ how does one change that? I wonder why it is 97 and not 100?
of course when I clicked on reply here I was going to ask you how do you get that screen Gaus with 98.......... but like I said I opened ps and thought wonder what happens if I click on the arrow [bustagut] [bustagut] [bustagut] ....... what happened? the screen you showed above poped up [bustagut] [bustagut] [bustagut]
sfm
I have a different problem myself. Windows says that Photoshop uses 135MB, but at the same time I lost 250MB, so where did the other 115MB go? [confused]
I have some ideas, but let me do some research first and I'll share with you my experiences
Sue, aren't you on Win98? That os is a real horrorshow when it comes to memory management...if I'm not mistaken, it simly takes a % of your Ram, not what it really needs. More that 128Ram is simply not recognised. (or was it 256?) Anyway: for PS it is not really fit.
Scratch Disk 
Linear Mode
