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is there any solution to this problem that works...i'm strugging to find an answer that articulates what I need to do in laymens terms (or indeed one that is effeciive)....help pls!
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Lee
You have popped in to a thread which died about 7 months ago.
I suggest you tell us a bit about your system and your symptoms.
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hey john, thanks for resuscitating the topic. I on XP and it’s PS8
I have defragged, cleaned disc, etc.
In terms of symptoms, PS opens up and once open the prompt comes up. I hit okay and it shuts down.
i have tried CTRL + ALT + SHIFT whilst PS boots up; i get the prompt "ÿou currently have Adobe Photoshops primary Scratch and Windows' primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is reommmended that you set PS Primary Scratch Volume to be on a differrent volume, preferably on a different physical dirve."
I guess this means reinstall, partition and set up on a partitioned drive? I don't particularly want to take this course of action if there is an alternative. It doesn't make sense given I've got plenty of space.
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Lee71 wrote:
hey john, thanks for resuscitating the topic. I on XP and it’s PS8
I have defragged, cleaned disc, etc.
In terms of symptoms, PS opens up and once open the prompt comes up. I hit okay and it shuts down.
i have tried CTRL + ALT + SHIFT whilst PS boots up; i get the prompt "ÿou currently have Adobe Photoshops primary Scratch and Windows' primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is reommmended that you set PS Primary Scratch Volume to be on a differrent volume, preferably on a different physical dirve."
I guess this means reinstall, partition and set up on a partitioned drive? I don't particularly want to take this course of action if there is an alternative. It doesn't make sense given I've got plenty of space.
No no need for that!
The message about the scratch drive is normal: the CTRL + ALT + SHIFT resets the preferences to the default for a single HDD. If you have more than one, go into Edit > Preferences > Performance and set the primary scratch drive to the one without the paging file.
Once you have OK'd that message it should go away if you do only have one HDD.
Partitioning will not do anything. The object of the separate drives (if you have them) is to avoid conflict between Scratch and Page file.
Do you still have your original problem?
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Hi John,
Edit > Preferences - in PS? If so, I can't open PS. If within the drive
itself, I don't know where the option to do that is.
I did try moving the paging drive but that did not achieve the desired
result
Lee
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Lee71 wrote:
Hi John,
Edit > Preferences - in PS? If so, I can't open PS. If within the drive
itself, I don't know where the option to do that is.
I did try moving the paging drive but that did not achieve the desired
result
I thought you said PS opened with the warning message about scratch drives which I told to to ignore.
If it does open just go to Edit > Preferences > Performance and change drives.
You have told us precious little about your system like:
Operating System/version
Photoshop version number
Amount of RAM installed
Hard drive(s) & capacity free
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Hi John,
To clarify what i wrote previously was "i have tried CTRL + ALT + SHIFT whilst PS boots up; i get the prompt "ÿou currently have Adobe Photoshops primary Scratch and Windows' primary paging file on the same volume...".
My primary issue (the subject of this blog post) still remains. And the issue prevents access to the program and therefore the ability to: Edit >> Preferences etc.
My system:
xp profesional version service pack 2 and PS 8.0
1gb Ram
c drive: 64.2 GB (18.1 gb free)
d drive (recovery): (9.25 gb 1.16 free)
Cheers,
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You don't have much free space for a scratch disk that Photoshop can ultilize. For example I use one 300 GB hard drive just for scratch !
Don't know what your problem is or why Photoshop won't open; But I would have more space available then what you have if I wanted to use Photoshop for serious work.