--On Saturday, February 15, 2003 7:46 AM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This would not be silly or pointless. In fact, this makes more sense > than NOT doing this. If a RAM Disk is used, then this would allow the > extra space on the RAM Disk to be used as memory. Make sense yet? So, > still no definitive answer, is this POSSIBLE on a Mac? > > Chris > To answer your question directly, yes it is (was) possible. Back when I used Photoshop 2.5 or 3 in OS7.5.x or 7.6.1, I did try setting up a RAM disk for use as Photoshop's scratch disk. But it was not efficient because of Photoshop's requirement that the scratch disk be at least as large as the amount of RAM assigned to Photoshop. Example: 48MB installed RAM, the OS used 8MB, leaving 40MB unused. With a 19MB RAM disk and Photoshop assigned 19MB (leaving 2MB RAM for the OS if it wanted it), Photoshop would run but could not manipulate or store large files if its scratch disk was only the 19MB RAM disk. It ran much better if I trashed the RAM disk, assigned photoshop 38MB of RAM, and used the 200MB or so left on my 500MB hard disk as scratch disk. David S.
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