PS CS4 hanging up

Hi all,
I am having an issue with my Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.2
I am running it in a Macintosh environment. Mac Pro 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 12 GB ram. OS Snow Leopard 10.6.8, the scratch disk is set to an empty partition on an external LaCie firewire 800 drive.
I have been running Photoshop in this way for quite a while and just recently started developing a problem. The problem is that, intermittently, during some retouching, PS will hang up and I will get the dreaded spinning beach ball for several minutes before it finally completes the action. I have my OS and applications on a separate internal hard drive and noticed a lot of chattering coming from the drive lately (indicating some fragmentation). So I took a newly initialized drive and did a clean install or Snow Leopard and migrated the apps and other info from my other drive. This hasn't seemed to have helped as I am still getting PS hanging up intermittently with the spinning beach ball. Could it be somehow that PS is not recognizing the ram in some instances? I checked my ram and system profiler indicates that all the chips are good. None of my other processor intense apps are having this problem. I'm really stuck here and have a good 8 hours of retouching sitting in front of me.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Dennis

droliff wrote:
Hi all,
I am having an issue with my Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.2
…I have my OS and applications on a separate internal hard drive and noticed a lot of chattering coming from the drive lately (indicating some fragmentation)…
Not sure exactly what you are saying, but Adobe applications realy, really need to be in the root level Applications folder on the same volume where the OS resides, in other words on your boot volume.
droliff wrote:
Hi all,
I am having an issue with my Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.2
…and migrated the apps…
Aaah! All bets are off. "Migrating" applications brings nothing but grief. Install them fresh from the original media.
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