0 Replies Latest reply: May 21, 2010 7:41 AM by ac361 RSS

    How-to: Using Photoshop CS5 on external drive

    ac361 Community Member

      If you've installed Photoshop CS5 on an external hard drive, you might experience crashes. This is due to these drives automatically going to sleep mode after a few minutes. Some drives allow you to modify the sleep mode settings; however, many others don't let you change these presets.

       

      One solution: On Windows, use a program such as NoSleep to prevent the drive from going to sleep. To save energy, once you've shut down Photoshop, you can disable the NoSleep program and your external drive will once again use its default sleep mode. The program puts a convenient item in your system tray.

       

      Here's a similar solution for OS X.