On 28 Mar 2004 at 16:13, Herb Chong wrote: > it always does, even on tiny files. it backs up what is in memory so that if PS > runs out of space in RAM and there is a copy on disk, it doesn't have to write > it to disk again. you find out things like this reading the Photoshop Plugin SDK > documentation.
The "grunting" or excessive hdd access usually only occurs when the system runs out of real RAM and the OS starts to bight into the system swapfile for memory. A Photoshop temp file is always generated as Herb mentioned but it is generally written on the drive chosen in the Photoshop scratch disk preferences and can be found in the subdirectory assigned as temp in the users variables (type set in a DOS box to see your current temp folder settings) The general rule of thumb is don't assign your PS scratch disk to the same drive as your Windows swap file resides on. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
