slow ps

[WOODBS]

Photoshop running real slow...I assigned c drive and external f drive as scratch. I tried to assign an empty external but it didnt give me the option? any other ideas?

 

[WOODBS]

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[Service Sign Co]

Yes , use Corel Photopaint I have a lot of photoshop versions and I believe PS 7 wasn't a memory hog,so I just use Photopaint . It will open PSD's

 

[3dsignco]

IS your external a USB.. If it is your choking the scratch memory.. Use only a internal/Sata Drive preferably on that's not your main C drive.. And you really only need to use one.. Your chewing up Processing power by using 2 different Scratch drives.

 

[SignBurst PCs]

USB for scratch is NO GOOD. It will kill your performance (already mentioned above). Internal or eSATA (if equipped) is a much better plan.

 

[Replicator]

Agreed, external slows everything down . . . Internal or eSATA/SATA is the only way to go !

 

[Letterbox Mike]

Just backing what everyone else said, only external drive that's any good for a Scratch Disk is an eSATA drive, even Firewire will be a bottleneck. If you have the C drive set as the primary scratch disk you might also want to change that, assuming Photoshop is installed on the C drive. How much RAM do you have?