Add Scratch Disk - Possible in InDesign?

[Heleen Langeweg]

Hello,

Could anyone please tell me if it is possible to add a scratch disk for InDesign to use, like one can in Photoshop?

If yes, where can I find this option??

...The problem is my Virtual Machine, its C-drive is totally full and I will not have the time to clean it up any time soon.
So I added another disk and thought I'd let that one power InDesign, but now I don't know how.

Hope you guys can help, take care

Heleen

[Scott Falkner]

No. InDesign required a small fraction of the scratch space Photoshop does. You can specify any single drive or partition.

[Heleen Langeweg]

Are you saying I can point another (bigger) disk to act as RAM for InDesign?

[Scott Falkner]

You can select any volume or partition. It's in Preferences.

[Heleen Langeweg]

Yeah that's what I thought but I can't find it anywhere there.
I forgot to mention that I'am still on CS2... Not sure if that makes a difference. Can't find anything about it in Help either.
Can you please be specific to where I can find it?

Great to 'see' you again btw :) & thanks for the support, as always!

[Scott Falkner]

I'm on Mac, but the preference pane looks like this:



I'm not sure "scratch disk" is the proper term. I think the startup volume is where ID keeps temporary files. This is where your changes are temporarily saved in case of a crash. It's why you can recover unsaved changes or even unsaved files.

You mentioned "Virtual Machine". Are you only referring to the ME version? It might be different.

[Heleen Langeweg]

Well in this case, yes it's the ME version. But that version is exactly the same, except for some extra text tools. SO that shouldn't make a difference I think.

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But I might have the problem with my regular InDesign soon too because my normal C-drive is almost full, too.
I should have IT have a look and throw away anything I don't need.
But IT is on a holiday so I had to figure out something else :)

edit - why does my picture not show...
uff... this just isn't my day :p

[j***@adobeforums.com]

Heleen,

Don't include the time stamp. It's a bit hard to read as well :-)

Others: click the link, delete all after and including the '?'.

[Heleen Langeweg]

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:D sorry!