Problems with Adobe Photoshop 7.0

[bullion416]

I am running Windows XP Pro and I just installed Photoshop 7.0. I am getting a warning message each time the program loads up. It reads as follows: "You currently have Adboce Photoshop's primary Scratch and Window's primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop's primary Scratch volume to be on a different volume, peferably on a different physical drive."
How can I correct this problem?

 

[holycow]

goto preference/plugin & scratch disk to change the location of your scratch disk.

 

[bullion416]

It sounds like Photoshop wants a separate hard drive to cache files on (must be different drive than windows is installed on). Is there some way I can stop Photoshop from giving me that annoying message (listed in my previous post) each time I load up the program? Or should I just go back to Photoshop 5.5, b/c I had no problems like this with that version.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: holycow
goto preference/plugin & scratch disk to change the location of your scratch disk.

You might need to look under edit, but the advice above is correct.

 

[DefRef]

Ctrl+K brings up Preferences as well. This message has been there since I started with PS4 on a P133. It's prolly a holdover from when people had so little RAM that they were constantly into the Virtual Memory and having the OS writing while PS was trying to write would slow things down.

Nowadays, when I'm slinging 80MB PS files around like nothing cuz I've got 3/4 of a GIG of ram and never run out of physical memory, it's hard to remember that 5 years ago, that would've taken forever. I set my scratch disk to be another HD and am done with it. No biggie.