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1. Re: MVM_*.tmp files locking portable drive(s) when editing gifs
Grant H Feb 17, 2012 7:43 AM (in response to lister_uk)In PS prefs: under performance: have you got a local drive selected as a scratch disk?
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2. Re: MVM_*.tmp files locking portable drive(s) when editing gifs
Noel Carboni Feb 17, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to lister_uk)It's been shown time and again that those Mondo Virtual Machine files are put wherever Photoshop wants to put them, and they don't follow users' scratch disk preferences.
This is a problem Adobe really needs to address! For many folks its just a nuisance, but for some it breaks things.
-Noel
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3. Re: MVM_*.tmp files locking portable drive(s) when editing gifs
lister_uk Feb 17, 2012 2:52 PM (in response to Grant H)Yes, I have 2 physical internal drives, one is system and the other is partitioned with the first partition as the scratch.
This happens on my home PS (64 bit CS5) as well; it has 3 internal drives, with the scratch taking the whole of one drive.
This just seems like a very sloppy (or uncaring) 'solution' on the side of the programmers.
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4. Re: MVM_*.tmp files locking portable drive(s) when editing gifs
twenty_one Feb 17, 2012 4:23 PM (in response to lister_uk)I get those MVM_tmp's at the root of all non-system drives whenever I save a PNG (they usually clear when I quit PS, but not always).
But anyway, even without them I still can't release external drives with Photoshop open, I always have to close it first, as long as PS has had its fingers on any of the files on the drive. However, this is nothing special with Photoshop, Outlook does it too just to name one.
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5. Re: MVM_*.tmp files locking portable drive(s) when editing gifs
Noel Carboni Feb 17, 2012 4:25 PM (in response to twenty_one)The funny thing is that for some reason Photoshop ONLY writes those into C:\TEMP for me. I haven't been able to determine why, except perhaps that C: has 1 TB of free space (the most of any drive in the system).
-Noel



