Working with External Hard Drive

[dendee33]

Hi,
I need some help with the Maxtor ONe touch III. This system has backed up everything I have on my hard drive. I don't know how to open up Adobe PHotoshop Elements 4.0 on the external hard drive. On my computer, the organizer opens up and I have an icon on the desk top for Adobe PSE but how can you access the program on the external hard drive??
Thanks for any help with this.
denise

[Codebreaker]

Denise....

The simple answer is you can't. Elements will only run from the drive on which you installed it - which is typically the C drive.

Colin

[Larry Hitner]

Sorry Colin, I don't agree. PE5 is on my C drive and the images are on the D drive . It's working fine.

Larry

[Larry Hitner]

Denise
Use the Folder location to sort your pictures in the external hard drive. I use a geographic folder systerm rather than date. You can access your external hard dive through My Computer and PE5 will work.

Larry

[dendee33]

Dear Colin and Larry,
Thanks for your help.
denise

[Wendy]

Larry ...

Colin means that you have to have Elements installed on your internal drive .. images can indeed be on the external one but not PSE itself :)

Wendy

[Codebreaker]

Larry....

As Wendy says, you can have your images where ever you like but Elements can only be installed in one place and that's usually the C drive.

The usual confusion is that people think Elements actually contains the images. It doesn't - it only contains thumbnails and pointers to where your images actually are.

Colin

[ATR]

Colin and all,

I have come across that guideline, namely Program goes on internal hard drive, but projects can be on external hard drive.

But, in the discussion that has taken place so far, there has been no mention of setting up the scratch discs when you decide to go "external hard drive".

In my Photoshop Elements 3, it is Edit Menu/Preferences/Plug ins and Scratch Discs.

Any comments anyone on that aspect anyone?

ATR

[Codebreaker]

Scratch disks are just used for temporary working files that Elements needs when it's doing something. Having them on a seperate internal drive from the program can speed things up. Putting them on an external drive I don't think would produce much of a benefit because the interface to the EHD is slow.

Plus you'd always need to have the EHD on.

Colin

[Wendy]

Hi ..

Colin is right about external hard drives being used as scratch disks but if your internal drives donlt have a lot of space then using the externa; one can be better that using a packed internal one :)

WEndy