Photoshop creating big files on slow drive
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:29 am
I've been trying to optimize PS (CS5.1 64 bit, Windows 7) and noticed (using Process Monitor) that some plugins create numerous, rather large, temporary files (100s of MB) on arbitrary drives. e.g., I've seen it create files such as A:\3540_1226448_MVM_12.tmp - the common part is the "MVM" (something to do with Mondo plugins, whatever those are).
The downside is that A is my slowest drive, so presumably this choice of location is slowing down the filters. I have plenty of space on other, much faster drives, but can find no way to force the filters to use those. (It doesn't matter what the settings are for memory allocation, scratch drive, page file or tmp/temp folder.)
I imagine I'm not the only one who bought a small, fast drive for PS scratch and paging, and a large, slow drive for movies and music.
Another quirk. If you set PS to use C as its scratch drive, it will actually use whatever folder is set as the Windows TMP folder (in the Windows environment variable). It will do this even if the TMP folder is not on the C drive.
The downside is that A is my slowest drive, so presumably this choice of location is slowing down the filters. I have plenty of space on other, much faster drives, but can find no way to force the filters to use those. (It doesn't matter what the settings are for memory allocation, scratch drive, page file or tmp/temp folder.)
I imagine I'm not the only one who bought a small, fast drive for PS scratch and paging, and a large, slow drive for movies and music.
Another quirk. If you set PS to use C as its scratch drive, it will actually use whatever folder is set as the Windows TMP folder (in the Windows environment variable). It will do this even if the TMP folder is not on the C drive.