New scratch disc

I have a large project with the Scratch Disc on an external drive. I am starting another large project and want to use a separate drive for it. When I try to set the Scratch Disc either both projects are on one drive, or they are on both. I can't seem to separate them. Or does it just fill up the first drive and move to the second.
Thanks
Randy

So I set each Project on a drive. When I open Project1 I set that Scratch Disc. When I open Project2 I set that Scratch Disc and clear Project1 Scratch Disc? And on and on. Not that I plan to go back and forth all the time, sometimes you need a break
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I just tried to open a few of very large image files (9GB in total) and when I did I got the message "scratch discs full". Now I understand why that happened, but it seems to have eaten a whole load of disc space that wont come back. I've since closed photoshop, restarted my Mac, etc. but about 10 GB is still used up where it wasn't before. I can't locate any temp files anywhere (prefs only tells me the scratch disc is my Mac HD, not which folders it's in). Can anyone help me with this? Where are Ps temp files usually located on a Mac? I need those 10GB back!
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asking the adobe team photoshop engineers, if there is one?
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hi all ive just finally found my self in a position to have a dedicated hard drive for cache, scratch disks etc.. WHen I create a new project I go to the scratch discs tab and specify the hard drive as the location for them, however I find myself having to do this every time i create a new project.. can I not set it to default to there, if so could somebody explain how?
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The answer is "no" and "yes".
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IMac scratching discs.

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I have a Canon DV camcorder and a 250 GB HD on my iMac G5 that is filling up. I usually have enough HD space to capture video without problem, but I run into some sluggish performance as I move through the editing process.
Realizing the FW bus issues with capturing from my Canon camera directly to my 250 GB external LaCie HD, is it feasible to capture to my internal HD and move the captured video to my external HD and edit from there? Are there specific steps I should take so FCE will recognize the new location of the files?
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is it feasible to capture to my internal HD and move the captured video to my external HD and edit from there? Are there specific steps I should take so FCE will recognize the new location of the files?
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Installation/scratch disc location query

back since PS7, i've followed a bit of advice i found on a site in that PS was installed on a separate partition to the opsys, and the scratch discs were elsewhere too.
I'm putting in a new 120gig SSD and a 500gig normal drive tomorrow, obviously Win7 (64bit) will be on the SSD, is it worth partitioning that up and putting PS CS5 separate or does it not matter nowadays?
cheers

There's no good reason to partition your SSD; it likely wouldn't help or hurt performance either way, but your free space will be divided up, and 120 GB is none too much to start with.
You definitely DO want the Photoshop scratch drive to be physically different than the drive on which your opsys swap file is resident, though.
Assuming your SSD will be C: and your 500 GB drive will be D:...
Some of Adobe's software ALWAYS installs on drive C:, but I've heard that if you work at it you can get Photoshop installed on D: (I don't remember the specifics of the installer, though). It might be helpful to install Photoshop on the separate hard drive, simply because Windows may ultimately want to grow and grow until that 120 GB is mostly used up. A Photoshop CS5 installation chews up 1 GB or more of disk space.
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Hi Gang
Was wondering if using an old 1TB FC6 Scratch Disc, (from an older G5 - Journaled using 10.4), and putting it in a Mac Pro G5 using FC7 and 10.6.8 would cause system crashes?
Again, to make it clear:
Taking out a scratch disc previously used for FC6 in a Dual Core Machine, then putting it in a Mac Pro, (with a NEW system drive), would cause cascading system crash screen prompting a manual re-boot?
Thanx
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Thank you David
But again, to make it clear:
Taking out a scratch disc previously used for FC6 in a Dual Core Machine, then putting it in a Mac Pro using FC7, (with a NEW system drive), would cause cascading system crash screen prompting a manual re-boot?

Resetting scratch disc?

I have a couple of external drives that I store project files on from FCE. One will not mount (the first in the daisy chain of two) and have tried everything to do so, but, it seems that I will have to remove for data recovery and a new drive (FYI: it's a Western Digital MY Book Pro Edition). Anyway, FCE is looking for the missing drive before it will open. Apparently, I have to reset scratch disk since I can't mount the missing drive. Do I simply uncheck the missing drive in "Scratch disks", physically remove that drive, hook up second drive directly to computer and check it's boxes in "scratch discs"?
Once I get info restored onto new drive I'll want to replace it and just want to ensure that I don't screw anything up on past projects or do something that will render FCE useless for project I need to start tomorrow. Am I making this more complex than it actually is?

I second Tom's recommendation. At this point you don't want to update anything, especially since your G5 is working ok. You want to resolve your scratch disk problem BEFORE doing anything else.
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• Tiger (10.4.11) is very stable
• Leopard is no longer officially available, although you can find copies at OWC, MacMall, eBay, etc. If you intend to keep your G5 for the forseeable future, you might want to pick up a copy of Leopard before it disappears.
• Snow Leopard is only for Intel Macs.
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• Do not upgrade iTunes, as it will bring a new version of QuickTime with it
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