page file and print file assignment
2004-08-18 by jarrrush
Bob - I am on a PC, Windows XP-Home OS. How can I assign the page file and print file to a separate hard disk? Obviously you need a scratch disk but how do you assign these files? Thank you, J essage: 6 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:04:55 +0100
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From: "Bob Frost" <bob@...> Subject: Re: Re: Ideal Windows computer spec Chris, Not sure that your image will reside entirely in RAM. Don't forget that the PS scratch file is PS's virtual memory; I think you will find that it swaps stuff in and out of the scratch disk all the time, just as Windows does with its pagefile. When you click on print, Photoshop has to convert the image file from your working space to the printer space (or send it to the printer driver to do that). Then the printer driver has to upsample the image to the ppi that it works with internally, and then turn it into the CMYK info for printing dots of the requisite colors. When that is all done, the resulting file is sent (spooled) to the location specified in the Registry (on your system disk if you haven't changed it). Then you get back PS for further work. So I guess that it is largely processor and RAM dependant, unless you have very slow hard disks, or your pagefile, scratch file, and printerspool file are all on the same hard disk (when the heads will be whizzing back and forth between these). Put at least some of these on separate disks and they can all be doing different things at more or less the same time, thus speeding things up a lot.