Digital BW, The Print

Frank,

>  I think the ideal system setup is: OS on
> one HD drive, Photoshop on another, scratch disk on another and OS
> "virtual memory" (WindowsXP nomenclature) on a fourth HDD.

Agreed.

I've not quite achieved that perfection, but have my PS Scratch disk on a 
separate 10GB partition on my WinXP drives (Raid0), my XP pagefile on a 
separate dedicated 10GB partition on a second data drive, and my printer 
spool files on another separate dedicated 10GB partition on a third backup 
data drive.

So, three effective drives, with three dedicated partitions for scratch 
files, pagefiles, and printer files. Seems to work well.

Need to check now and again that there are no leftover printer files (after 
any failed attempts at printing). Photoshop and XP clean up their 
partitions, but printers don't! It is amazing how many temp files can be 
left behind by misbehaving software. A search for .tmp files now and again 
can be quite mindboggling.

Bob Frost.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Kolwicz" <kolwicz@...>