04-15-2010, 05:23 PM
Paul,
Stress is already lowered. With the RAM and the new boot partition - I have had no daily mid-day Photoshop crashes (did have a 4AM freeze that I had to shut down by the power switch. Repaired permissions and repaired disk, now running smoothly).
I can now run Photoshop and InDesign and Bridge and Apple Mail without having to quit something when a file starts to choke and sputter.
Changed the settings for RAM and scratch disk, restarted Photoshop, and the first file I opened did so in about half the speed I expected.
I think the new LCD I got is messing with the computer. I normally have the monitors go to sleep after 15 minutes, and with this new monitor, I will have to wait several minutes as my dual monitor set-up goes through some strange on/off cycle "dance" with sometimes a plain background screen, Apple's default blue background screen and my active desktop. I have now set my monitors to never sleep, just screen saver. I think the new monitor has some "splash" screen that it wants to display when started up.
Still don't know what caused the overnight freeze. Never had that before. The beachball was spinning until 8am. I still think the Adobe Mothership and Apple's Mail are sparring for the internet connection.
Still, much less stress, much less.
CW2V
Stress is already lowered. With the RAM and the new boot partition - I have had no daily mid-day Photoshop crashes (did have a 4AM freeze that I had to shut down by the power switch. Repaired permissions and repaired disk, now running smoothly).
I can now run Photoshop and InDesign and Bridge and Apple Mail without having to quit something when a file starts to choke and sputter.
Changed the settings for RAM and scratch disk, restarted Photoshop, and the first file I opened did so in about half the speed I expected.
I think the new LCD I got is messing with the computer. I normally have the monitors go to sleep after 15 minutes, and with this new monitor, I will have to wait several minutes as my dual monitor set-up goes through some strange on/off cycle "dance" with sometimes a plain background screen, Apple's default blue background screen and my active desktop. I have now set my monitors to never sleep, just screen saver. I think the new monitor has some "splash" screen that it wants to display when started up.
Still don't know what caused the overnight freeze. Never had that before. The beachball was spinning until 8am. I still think the Adobe Mothership and Apple's Mail are sparring for the internet connection.
Still, much less stress, much less.
CW2V