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| Posted: Mon Sep 17th, 2012 05:58 |
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Hawkeye
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'A large, fast, dedicated HD for a scratch disk is a good idea, NOT the HD with the OS on it or that might even slow things down. Say a WD Black 250Gb would make a good scratch drive. If you plan to use an external it needs to be Firewire or eSATA. With a PC it's so easy to slip another internal drive in connected to the SATA bus. If you use USB for a scratch drive that could make things worse, it's so slow.' Thanks for the info Robert - I hear what you are saying ref the Settings - I've been mucking about with them a bit and I'd like to put them back to defaults but cannot see any obvious way to do this except uninstall and reinstall PS - ? I do have a new 'My Book Essential WDBAAF0020HBK - Hard drive - 2 TB - external - Hi-Speed USB' - could this be suitable to allocate to Scratch? 'I suspect something in your hardware or OS isn't 100% 64bit clean' I've recently (last week) unistalled Win7 64-bit and installed 32-bit (had it done professionally!) So perhaps you are right, but not much I can do about this. 　 　
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17th, 2012 13:21 |
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jk
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Hawkeye wrote: 'A large, fast, dedicated HD for a scratch disk is a good idea, NOT the HD with the OS on it or that might even slow things down. Say a WD Black 250Gb would make a good scratch drive. If you plan to use an external it needs to be Firewire or eSATA. With a PC it's so easy to slip another internal drive in connected to the SATA bus. If you use USB for a scratch drive that could make things worse, it's so slow.' That disk should be OK as a scratch disk. Fastest possible connection is good so an internal secondary disk connected to SATA channel is better than external USB connected one. Now you are back on Win7 32bit there may be some compromises with add-in software from people like OnOne and NikSoftware.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 03:14 |
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Robert
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Sorry Ken, been a bit preoccupied with other stuff last few days. Are we discussing PC hardware or Apple Mac hardware? If you are running Apple hardware with PC emulation software, like for example VM ware Fusion 4, then that would explain a lot. Mac's will run MS Windows, and quite well BUT for heavyweight stuff like Photoshop you need to run native software and the latest best sorted OS available for reliability and best experience. Photoshop runs perfectly on my Mac mini's and on my friends iMac, straight out of the box. Emulation software is best kept for specialist utilities which are only available for windows. Once we know what hardware you are using will be better able to advise meaningfully. As for resetting Ps to defaults, here is a screenshot of my Prefs window which is default. I have now changed the scratch drive to the bottom 500Gb drive which is actually empty. But the pref's panel is from a new, clean install of PS and has never been touched, in fact it's the first time I have opened it! LOL Attachment: Ps Pref's.jpg (Downloaded 35 times)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 04:32 |
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Hawkeye
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Thanks for the info Robert - I have been back to a PC with Win 7 32-bit for the past year. My prefs are much like yours - see the attachment - also the attchment for Bridge Prefs/Cache. Later today I plan to install an external HD for the Cache (is yours an external or internal?) to see if that improves the situation in Bridge - but I am also getting 'out of memory' messages in CS6, I need to address that problem. I do know that there was stacks more RAM in 64-bit but I was having problems with 64-bit so changed over to 32-bit - maybe not the best move! Attachment: Pref dialog.jpg (Downloaded 35 times)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 04:34 |
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Hawkeye
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Can't seem to attach more than one attachment, so here is the Bridge Prefs/Cache!! Attachment: Bridge prefs.jpg (Downloaded 36 times)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 07:24 |
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jk
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Keeping 100% Previews in Cache may be hogging memory. I'd try with that option switched off. I use other programs for finding/viewing images before editing.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 10:55 |
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Hawkeye
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jk wrote: Keeping 100% Previews in Cache may be hogging memory. I'd try with that option switched off. Tried that JK - no difference! Just to remind folks - in CS6/Bridge after checking a few NEF images with the loop it says '100% not available' also up comes the message 'Bridge is low on memory', a temporary cure is to purge the cache and restart - but again after checking a few NEF images the problem returns. I'll see if it makes any difference when I check a panel of jpegs. And in Photoshop itself after a short time I get the message not enough RAM. I'm seriously thinking of taking up fishing!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2012 11:12 |
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Hawkeye
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OK - just tried looking at a load of jpegs and everything is fine, couldn't get the problem to reappear - so it seems to only happen with NEF files - SO, no more raw images? In the meantime below is an image of the Tornado steam loco at Sherringham - NEF ! Attachment: Norton web.jpg (Downloaded 30 times)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19th, 2012 06:39 |
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richw
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Very nice photo. I used to get something similar in XP, I used to have to restart photoshop every third image or so. Never did fix it, bought my Mac Book and not looked back.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19th, 2012 08:15 |
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jk
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It is a Windoze 32bit problem I think. I have heard this several times before with users of 32bit XP, Vista and Win7
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