Wait

"...which can result in reduced performance." [saywhat] [stuned]

I had to reinstall PS today and I was wondering what this message box was trying to convey to me. If someone out there could help me out I'd appreciate it. I sure don't want a reduction of performance while working with large files... }

Thx, for your help! [righton]

-Joe

gymmie

Wait, it wants you to assign a scratch disk to another hard disk (if you have one). On Windows, particularly, having the scratch disk as the same disk as where PS is installed can indeed decrease performance.

To change that: Cntrl-K to bring up Preferences, change the drop-down to "Plug ins and Scratch Disks" and assign another disk.

The scratch disk is where PS keeps temporary files, like your history states. (This is why the History states go away when you close the file.)

Bacardi

Julie is right. The Windows scratch file is on the same partition as you installed your Win on. PS also needs a scratch file, and these may interfere. So indeed it is best to put the PS scratchfile on another Hard disk, or, if you haven't got a second HDD, then on another partition of you HDD.

In case you don't have more than one partition, then you can ignore the message and hope for the best. Many people never have problems with it, yet this also depends on the free space on your HDD. When it's filled to the brim, then you're bound for trouble, which is easy to understand.

If you have enough RAM, then the scratch file wil either not be used at all, or be quite small.

Smoke420

I got that same message the couple times i installed 7. [stuned]

Wait

Well I have 1GB in the RAM department so maybe I will not be effected at all. But to be sure I'll go a head and place it on another drive.

Though I do have one more question on another "error"... Do I access my monitor profile through PS or the install CD that came with the monitor?

Thx, for the help... again. :}

-Joe

Bacardi

A profile tells Photoshop which monitor it is and how it should adress it.I don't know what monitor you have, but if you calibrated it yourself with the Adobe Gamma Utility, you can easily rerun that.
If your monitor came with its own profile, and you want to use it, you probably can find a new one on the manufacturer's site.

Wait

Also, is it a good idea to raise or lower my "Cache Levels" under the "Memory & Image Cache" pull down? I put my "Maximum Used by Photoshop:" to 100% or rather 932MB of memory. Should I have left it at 436 or 463... I don't remember the specific number?

Thx,

-Joe

Bacardi

If you don't give your OS some RAM, you won't go far before you get a freeze. Depending on your OS, some 70% is more than enough. (I mean: Win98's memory management is so bad that Win still has the reputation of not being able to handle memory. Yet here too 70% will do because you have more than enough ram)