Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Darkroom to digital
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:22:35 -0700

Byron Wijayawardena wrote:
><snip>
> >I'm using an early 233MHz G3 Mac with 96 MB RAM and a 2 Gigabyte hard
> >drive.  At times Photoshop complains the drive space is too small.  I've
> >also used the Photo Deluxe software that was supplied with the printer on a
> >166 MHz Pentium (32MB RAM).  This was painfully slow.
> >
> >Doug Herr
><snip>
> Doug,
> 
> Have to tried increasing the memory allocation to Photoshop and closing all
> other applications.
> Just in case you're not too sure how to:
> To increase memory allocation to Photoshop
> - make sure no applications are running (except Finder obviously)
> - select the Photoshop application by clicking on it once
> - File- Get Info - Memory/ Set Minimum size to Suggested size/ Set
> preferred size to 25000-30000 (or however much memory you can spare)
> - Return.
>><snip>> Byron.

The last time you optimised your hard drive was? Photoshop thrives on large
black nice chunks of undisturned harddrive for it's scratch disk.
Mark Rabiner