How-to: Using Photoshop CS5 on external drive

If you've installed Photoshop CS5 on an external hard drive, you might experience crashes. This is due to these drives automatically going to sleep mode after a few minutes. Some drives allow you to modify the sleep mode settings; however, many others don't let you change these presets.
One solution: On Windows, use a program such as NoSleep to prevent the drive from going to sleep. To save energy, once you've shut down Photoshop, you can disable the NoSleep program and your external drive will once again use its default sleep mode. The program puts a convenient item in your system tray.
Here's a similar solution for OS X.

Small hard drive? Split your iTunes library across multiple volumes - http://www.macyourself.com/2009/04/24/small-hard-drive-split-your-itunes-library -across-multiple-volumes/ - copying media folders to external, then deleting from internal, then adding again.
Splitting & Managing Your iTunes Library - http://machintsandtips.com/i-j-k/itunes/splitting-managing-your-itunes-library/ - using option+drag to override iTunes from copying file to your default media folder.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10160819#10160819 - Change location of media folder to start putting files on second drive. Note later follow-up post about leaving 'organize media' and 'copy to drive' checked.
TuneSpan: (OS X app) A utility that allows you to distribute the media files in your iTunes Library across multiple drives. - http://tunespan.com/ - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunespan/id528459889?mt=12 - Requirements: OS X 10.6.6 or later, 64-bit processor

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