Digital BW, The Print

> From: Steven Karafyllakis [mailto:steve@...]
>
> Ever since PSCS became available and I started working in 16-bit,
> I've had this annoying problem with Win XP when editing large files:
> I have been getting frequent "you are running out of space on swap
> drive D" notices, this in spite of the fact that at one point I had
> a total of 16 GB of swap drives in various configurarions allocated
> to PS. Checking into it I found that only the first two were being
> used, the maximumum file size in either one was 3.99 GB, and the
> notices started as soon as the first partition got to that file
> size.
>
> It turns out that the Windows FAT 32 file system won't allow files
> of over 3.99GB, in spite of the fact that it does support really
> large drives. The Windows help utility describes how to use the
> Command Prompt interface to change the swap drive file structure to
> NTFS, which does not have that limitation.

Good tip. Many PS geeks prefer FAT32 because it's somewhat faster. But I
don't find the speed difference particularly noticeable, although I haven't
benchmarked it. If I have to run a benchmark to detect it, then I don't care
about the difference. And now that I do big panos, and have three gigs of
RAM, a 4GB swap file isn't of much use.

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