Photoshop quantity and slow computer

[Swanyriver]

In the past few months I have switched from shooting just Jpegs to Raw and Jpeg on my camera, I have noticed that it will eat alot of space up on the computer so I removed all but really the last couple months of pics to an external hard drive. Now I look at my photoshop files count at the bottom of the organizer page and it says 25k pics. Are these being stored in this application or are they ghosts that will come up when the external hard drive is hooked up? I need to get some speed back out of my computer and have tried disc cleanup, defrag and it dosen't seem to help, got any suggestions?

[Shane]

I store all my pics on an external drive. Ps or Lightroom that I use will be able to work with them whether they're on your internal HD or an external. As long as the Ps knows where to look for the pics, it can edit them.

You might also try something like Glary Utilities to do more than disk cleanup and defrag. It can clean up registry errors and other things too. Might help.

[Swanyriver]

Thanks Shane you seem to be my goto on the past few errors of mine I appreciate it.

[TexaswBOWhunter]

Something else to look at may be upgrading your memory, I recently added memory, DVI card and graphics to mine as it had the extra slots.. I doubled my memory... It's not that expensive and it really help out with my pc...

[Swanyriver]

Just moved over 20 gb of pics to the external, still seems slow. Maybe I'll look into your idea Tex and see if I can do anything with that. I am a little leary of having all those pics on that drive though, what if it crashes? Do you all happen to use an online server for a back up to the external?

[scotty]

Chris, I was in the same boat that you are in. I had an older computer that was extremely slow when working with Photoshop and Lightroom. Lightroom used to freeze up after about 30 minutes of work, and I would have to reboot the computer to get it running again. It was a royal pain. I tried upgrading the ram to the max it would handle. It helped some. I had a friend who is a network engineer look at my computer. He found everything to be working properly. No bugs. I have backup copies of my photos on two different external hard drives. I deleted everything that wasn't current on the internal drive. That didn't help much either. I finally broke down and bought a new computer and what a difference. It has an I7 processor, 8GB of ram, 1 TB hard drive and a killer video card. I paid less that 1K. It's unreal how fast it is. Lightroom used to take a couple of minutes just to load. Now it's about 1.5 seconds. I have loaded most of my photos back onto the internal hard drive, and I haven't noticed a drop off in speed.

[gjennings]

I also got a new computer with the I7 processor. I ordered it with 12GB of Ram so it's a blazin...

[Swanyriver]

WOW!!!!
I feel like i'm on dial-up with the speed of things. My brother is the tech geek for the family business, guess it is time to give him a call and see what is in the future.

[Swanyriver]

Which version of the I7 processor do you have running?

[Shane]

New laptop with lots more RAM and speed was the biggest help for me too.

[gjennings]

I have the I7-860..

[scotty]

I have the I7-860..

I have the same processor in mine.

[Swanyriver]

Does an E7200 sound right? Where can I find out what is in mine?