CS6 Recovery REALLY only for "C" drive?

Question

I've seen a couple discussions in here about recovery in CS6.  And that it only works if you have your scratch disk on "c"...
Has anyone from Adobe CONFIRMED this?  And if so, PLEASE tell me someone is going to FIX such a stupid flaw...
Anyhow, this morning, spent an hour or so cleaning up and image...  And FORGOT to save the .psd file before I resized it and save a jpg.  Which NORMALLY isn't a problem - just back up in history and save prior to the crop....  UNFORTUNATELY, Photoshop HUNG while saving the jpg, which it has never done before, and I was unable to save the psd 'cause I kept getting the popup telling me it was saving in background and I'd have to wait.  I finally had to kill the process.
Went out and checked my scratch partion - which happens to be "q", and of course theres a recovery folder, in which is a folder with my name...  IN WHICH THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING..........
I'm treating it as a learning experience, ONCE AGAIN...  Kind of like when I used to do Oracle development - the ABSOLUTE requirement was that you save EARLY and OFTEN 'cause the software was GOING to crash, hang, or do SOMETHING disgustingly undesirable.

Answer 1

Noel Carboni wrote:
Unfortunately that's not true 100%, and I think that could be part of the issue here.
It seems that parts of Photoshop do use the standard locations some of the time.
However, under no conditions is it expected that a user would normally store user-specific data at the root directory of a drive volume (e.g., D:\), yet that's exactly where it tries to put it if you select that drive for scratch.  And I'm not just talking about the big scratch files normally seen, but also stuff like that bevy of ...MVM... files that just seem to show up wherever.  Some folks even see those being written to the root folder on external drives!
The head-scratcher in this is that it's not deterministic, and by Adobe's lack of participation in these kinds of threads it seems likely - incredible as it sounds - that Adobe doesn't actually KNOW what folders they're going to be using.
I would have thought that they'd have nailed down exactly how file access is going to work for brand new features, such as auto-save, but yet here we have people reporting the folders get created but without the files being written.  And absolutely no documentation describing how it works and where the files are supposed to be written.  What do YOU imply from that?
-Noel
I can not fully agree whith you here the above is more your own view on how things should be we all have our own views as does Adobe.  While each user can set the disk that they want Photoshop to use for temp scrach data  the setting clearly shows that the files will be in the disk root.   I feel this is good for when Photoshop failes to clean up after itsselef these file stick out like a saw thumb and are quickly deleted by me.  I would hate to be running out of disk space on some drive because Photoshop failed to clean up and where I would have to search for where these files are and worst case would be if ever user had their own scratch areas not in the root. I feel it would be a bigger mess.  The intent of this preference is to enable the user to seperate the devices used by the system and photoshop for basiclly paging storage. These files have a temp extention and I like the fact the are always in volumes roots.