West_ray said:
but i scare later my system will become unstable after i empty C:\Documents and Settings\Ray\Local Settings\Temp folder. Each Photoshop files in that folder can be as large as 280mb ...
anyway i'm uninstalling the PS now, and see whether it will solve the prob.
heh...let me ease your mind regarding that part. Photoshop uses a lot memory for graphic edit work. Photoshop allows you to have as much "UNDO" steps as you would need when you edit or create something so that you can back track your action steps when you made mistakes.
When you are working on graphic editing..your RAM runs out of space to store your work and other data types, it will start to use your HDD like "ram" (scratch disk function) to buffer all your files, buffer data..etc. It would be slower to access but it will be able to let you keep working on your creation. Photoshop will place all this temporary work datas in the Windows/Temp directory by default.
Usually, when you exit Photoshop, all those files, undo steps..etc that photoshop created would be erased and you hardly would notice them. BUT!...some time if you system hangs, some hiccup happens (which is not surprising) with Windows own background activities to managed the OS or just an indigestion with a third party software/application(Please don't start with the apple imac dodo versus PC) ..when this happens..it "forgets" to errase those Temp files from the TEMP folder when you exit PS. The next time you open PS, it does not use back that temp file it setup..instead it start a NEW one and ignore this one. Over time, if you don't check on this folder once in a while you will be surprised to go in one day and find dozens of this "PST..xxx" . Some as big as 1 gig or more...depending on how big a graphic file you are working on and number of undo action you are holding on to the job.
So...once you are finish with using PS and you have saved your work.,....just go delete all those files in the TEMP folder.
To be sure to erase any file you don't want the Recycle Bin to keep temporary, do what I do when I want to erase a file with the delete button. Selection the file or files you want to delete, hold down the SHIFT key and then press DELETE. The usual prompt will appear asking if you really want to confirm delete. Just click yes. Instead of keeping it in the recycle bin, it instantly delete it permanently. Of course you could set up recycle bin to automatically erase it each time you press delete. But I prefer to do it this was to avoid situations where I might regret the deletion or made an error and need to get the file back. So only when I need to delete things permanently, I will press the SHIFT key as well.
YOu can also configure how recycle bin manage your deleted stuff and limit how big a size it can be allocate keep deleted stuff before erasing them completely. The same goes for your IE too. You can limit the cache space so that over time it does not store up too many old stuff of sites you surf. Cache is good as it speed up loading time when you surf the same site often. Instead of downloading the same CLUBSNAP logo of the site to present it on your screen, it just take it ouf from the IE temp cache folders. Actually I set mine to a very small sie and I set it to erase it once I am out of IE. My logic is, in these day and age of using broadband, my modem is fast enough to keep pulling a fresh graphic or text...each time I visit the same site.
Hope this helps...I can relate to you in some way...I have one bad thing about me. I am rather anal about all this deletion of useless stuff even when I have two 80gig hdd and are usually only 20% used each! I will still track down all this stuff and delete. heheh,.
