Digital BW, The Print

I'm not a computer engineer but wouldn't it make sense for PS to be able to
access multiple scratch disks - at the same time?  Seems that there would
not be many situations when more than one scratch disk (being the "media"
drive where the .psd ideally resides) is helpful.


> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:27:12 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Puzzled by PS scratch drives
> 
> 
> Scott,
> 
> 1GB isn't very big for a scratch file; the image may have several layers and
> all those different history states to remember. The default is 20 history
> states; I use 50 and others use even more. Open a couple of files at the
> same time, use the file browser, and the scratch file can easily get to 4GB.
> 
> Bob Frost
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "scott_now_coming" <scott_now_coming@...>
> 
> "Not only that, but if you're on a Win Machine you're limited to 3.99
> GB per single file size unless you format the scratch drive in NTFS
> 
> Just curious Steve, has that ever been a problem with you?
> Even 1 gb is a huge file.