Photoshop 6.0 - so slow

[jjmaster-j]

PLease help... I don't know what happened but my Photoshop is getting so slow. It was not like this before. Everything is so slow: drag a pic, draw a line, create layer, etc... i did not install any new software

Help...Help

Thanks

[B3NKobe]

thats why you upgrade to Photoshop 8 CS :D:D - j/k, sorry I cant actually help you on that one, maybe its a hardware problem with your PC?

[berkoWitZ]

sounds like a problem with ur PC, not ur PS, scan ur system and clean everything, erase unused archives etc and a defragmentation its not a bad idea...

[.soulty]

might be the ram allocation, or the scratch disc you allocated photoshop to is a little fuller than it was when photoshop was running quicker.

[jjmaster-j]

Thanks for all your responses. I uninstalled Photoshop and re-installed it again, and it worked now. That's wierd. However I have a question. When I launch Photoshop for the first time, it says that I need to store something like scratch & windows...somewhere (see attached pic.) How do I do that?

Thanks

[.soulty]

thats what i was talking about before. Basically a scratch disc is like temporary ram that photoshop uses when it fills up the allocated amount of ram you set it to have.

say you have 512 meg ram and say use 80 percent of that ram, when that is full it will start using the hardrive (scratch disc) space you allocate it as ram.

To adjust your scratch disk go to edit/ preferences / scratch disk.

:: generally it is a good idea to have a seperate drive that controls all the scratch disk situations. I have a 80 gig drive dedicated to scratch disk, in which i have all my abode range scratch disk settings pointed to this drive.

[jjmaster-j]

.soulty,

i have an extra HD with 80Gigs too. So how do I point the scratch disk to my G: drive. under preferences->sctrach, then SCRATCH DISKS, Should I change FIRST to G: (which is my extra drive). Right now I have first as STARTUP (which i am not sure where it is). and SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH as none.

Thanks

[.soulty]

click on where it says startup, it should give you a drop down list, and select your G: drive.

[jjmaster-j]

That's what I thought...Thanks .soulty

[sedgemonkey]

Another thing that helps a bit is if you limit the amount of history items you have. If it's excessive it wastes a lot of memory.