Setting up preferences in photoshop

[shirbit]

recently I've noticed photoshop starting to bog down on me...and I'm wondering it if may have to do with the 'memory & image cache' setting in preferences...are there any 'rules' here when setting the percentage?

sb

[Ryan8720]

I have mine at 50%. I could be that your computer itself is just getting bogged. Or you can just get more memory.

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C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS RUN

[shirbit]

I've just picked up an external hard drive to keep the large files of my pc...and I have 2GB RAM...so I'm not sure what's happening.

sb

[Ryan8720]

So you are on PC? When was the last time you defragmented the harddrive?

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C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS RUN

[D-Frag]

if your on a pc, you have to constantly dfrag your system, especially if you work with large files because photoshop will use virtual memory and take 700-900 megs of space to use.....those leave large blocks and holes in your hardrive so you must defragment on a monthly basis if you work with large amounts of files.


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[shirbit]

Thanks for all the feedback...I'll give it a go...

sb