CS Question for "The Techies"

Excuse my ignorance in this but I have a question re CS.
When working on my images in CS2 I have noticed that after the 3rd and 4th ones have been opened, worked on, then closed; the memory (and I have 4gb), becomes full very quickly, and consequently slows down the various processes. Once I shut down CS and re - open it again it speeds up.
Does CS somehow retain recent work and is there a way to stop it?
I don't mean the "open recent images" file.
Suggestions (polite ones) very welcome.
Best wishes
Phil

Hi Phil,

Are your scratchdisk(s) on the main drive? Could be extensive disk swapping. Look in preferences to see if they are and if so try a different drive.

Paul

NL/Rotterdam

Agree with Paul here, it certainly sounds like your scratch disk is getting full, we have a separate partition dedicated just to PS scratch set on all our computers.

No matter how much memory you have installed Photoshop always uses the scratch to cache the image and changes made.

HTH

Thanks guys, problem solved. I must admit that I didn't realsie that they used the scratch to cache the images.
Help much appreciated as ever.
Best wishes
Phil

Under edit menu there is a "purge" command - this deletes the recent history stored to scratch disk - if you experience significant processing delays you can purge the disk and continue, but you lose the history trail of actions - ie only use when happy with results so far.

Mike