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RE: [Digital BW] OT Again: (sorry Martin) Photoshop scratch disk usage?

2004-01-03 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@...]
>
> Both PS 7 and CS seem unwilling to use more than 4G of scratch disk;
> I started with 8G on this installation, split it into two 4G and
> still I get "scratch disks full" notices when only one partition
> reaches its limit. Any others having this problem? Any solutions?

I suspect the limit is actually 2GB per file, since on Windows applications
have to use a whole different API to do random access on files larger than
that size--and weren't able to do so at all prior to (I think) Windows 2000.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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