Darlene:
I'm at a loss to understand your problems. I personally run Photoshop CS-2 on both my laptop (a Dell) and home computers. I'm not doing *anything* special on the laptop in regard to the Windows XP pagefile, or the Photoshop paging file. Photoshop runs just fine on this machine.
There appears to be a bit of confusion regarding "paging" or swap files, let me explain the difference:
Windows: Like all modern operating systems, Windows is capable of commiting more memory (RAM) than physically exists - it does this via a pagefile on the disk. The purpose is to allow least used memory (again RAM) to be "swapped" out to the disk, in order to free memory up. If data and/or program memory is called back up later - then this memory is retreived from the hard disk back into RAM. If this sounds cluncky and slow - it is! I would recommend no less than 1GB RAM, preferably 2GB for any computer that is running Photoshop.
Photoshop: The PS scratch file simply contains copies of the image you are working on through the various changes you make. If you "step back" changes you've made, you are simply retrieving one of the "scratch" images that are saved to disk.
Please note that the two do not interact with each other in any direct way, although they may well both be in use at any given time.
A couple of questions:
What filesystem are you running? Windows XP supports both FAT32 and NTFS file systems. FAT32 is absolute rubbish. *Any* problem writing to disk will result in a corrupted filesystem! Camera CF cards also use FAT32, know what the Pro's do everytime they put the card back in the camera? They format it - ensuring a clean filesystem to write to. Convert to NTFS via Control Panel.
You mention an Adobe "scratch file error", could you tell us *exactly* what the error states? From your description it sounds like you might have a physical problem with either the hard disk or possibly memory. Try running a chkdsk (My Computer | Local Disk C-Drive | Properties | Tools Tab and click the Check now button). Let us know the results!
hope this helps . . . -John
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John, the OS: HP Pavilion Intel [R]
Pentium [R] 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
3.00 GHz, 0.99GB of Ram
Physical Address Extention
I could not find how to convert the file system to NTFS if indeed the PC uses FAT 32. I went to the control panel but could not find where to convert the file system nor findout which is running.
Thanks for telling me to format the card for the camera each time I download the pics onto the PC, I did not know that; I know less about pic taking than I do about a PC, I haven’t had many chances to learn more then the basics of taking pics due to the many PC issues in the past year and half; I've been trying hard to resolve the PC issues first. I haven’t installed the intuos 3 tablets I have had for a year and a half; I thought it best to find the source of the problem(s) first. I haven't installed the canon ipf 5000 ether, I know it will not print smaller than 8 by 10, I hope to do more than just greeting cards one day.
Right now it appears that most of the past PC problems are working correctly. (I must state they have appeared to work properly in the past and later proved
un-true later.
John the PS error reads: You currently have adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch and windows primary paging file on the same volume which can result in reduced performance it is recommended that u set adobe Photoshop’s primary scratch volume to be on a different volume preferably on a different physical drive.
chkdsk: both boxes were unchecked (I do not know what steps to take if any due to both boxes being un-checked; again I am sorry, I have no knowledge in this area at all.
I appreciate all of the information you can give me so that I can proceed with my American Dream writing greeting cards.
John I know very little about such things as the how’s and whys in the running of PC's, software’s and such; but I know the pain that often surrounds millions of people each day, the purpose for my cards are to reach out inspiring hope to those who feel hopeless and alone. I write from the heart of any situation, inspiring the heart(s) in despair without hope seemly without hope.
Just a small reminder for each person reading this I am somewhat dyslexic with vision problems due to a birth defect, complicated years later by a muscular disease. (I have a friend that edits each of my cards). I've fought a long up-hill battle and won due to my trust in our creator and my husbands love. Often I could not see light at the end of the tunnel. But I found through learning as life handed me many advirisities the light was there through all the trying times. I expected the light one way but His guiding light came in different way. I have a wonderful Husband; 32 years now. I feel very fortunate to have learned many lessons in my life. I know what's really important, what brings true happiness. It’s not the heigth of your stature is within the community or even having large sums of money, yet money can help make life easier. Happiness is having mutual respect for one another no matter what our background may or may not be; mainly having respect for ones self. We were not promised life will be smooth all the way but we are promised a chance to do the best we can each day of our lives; no matter what each day brings. We’ve all made poor choices at times but in doing so we hopefully learned valuable lessons; helping us put our priorities in order. Thanks again for your help! Darlene
Added note I have Widows XP Home SP 2, MS Office XP Pro 2003 to aide in spelling etc. up-graded to adobe CS 2, Macromedia studio mx 04; Nothing but OS and Office Adobe CS, the 30 day MS office is listed in the program files, they were off but with repeated installs it is there again. darlene
