Cotty wrote: > As I understand the way Photoshop works, this is not correct. It is not > the user that decides if Photoshop has to swap to disk, it is Photoshop. > And it will readily do so depending on a number of factors including > levels of history vs file size etc. I am prepared to stand corrected, but > I am pretty certain that it works this way. Hard drive speed is not as > important as some indicate; Photoshop craftily utilises the Scratch > Disk(s) to enable optimum performance. Using a second drive is very > important - selecting the startup disk as a Scratch Disk will slow > performance.
ah, but Cotty! just because PhotoShop for Macintosh has such elegant interface w/ the hardware is certainly no guarantee that an equally graceful operation is possible on all other computer platforms !;^D Bill --------------------------------------------------------- Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast http://www.orednet.org/~bcasselb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------