Q. I use photoshop a lot, which has me use lots of different fonts and brushes. I don't like the thought of my mac losing space because of this. could i put my fonts and brushes on a portable hard drive, and just plug in my hard drive whenever i use photoshop and my downloaded fonts and brushes then?
okay, now i have another question, after i download it and install it, can i delete the folder downloaded? or do i have to keep it?
on my dell laptop, which is the first place i had photoshop, including the fonts that came with the laptop, in total 396. i recently bought photoshop cs5 for my mac since my photoshop on my dell laptop was installed a long time ago (photoshop 7.0) so i just installed it on my mac two, three days ago.
okay, now i have another question, after i download it and install it, can i delete the folder downloaded? or do i have to keep it?
on my dell laptop, which is the first place i had photoshop, including the fonts that came with the laptop, in total 396. i recently bought photoshop cs5 for my mac since my photoshop on my dell laptop was installed a long time ago (photoshop 7.0) so i just installed it on my mac two, three days ago.
Answer
Update:
You could go far beyond that and still not have a space issue.
Good luck to ya and happy Photoshopping.
Update:
Once you install the font you can delete it. When you click install it makes a copy of the font and places it in your font folder so you no longer need the first one
Side question:
How many fonts do you have approximately?
Don't worry about the space used by fonts and brushes. Fonts are only a few mb at most and brushes are only a few kb.
You have so much storage that it just does not make a difference.
Also what you want to do is not a function built into the Mac os or Photoshop.
You would have to write a custom script that would create a symbolic link to the external directory that contains the fonts and another for the brushes before Photoshop loads.
Update:
You could go far beyond that and still not have a space issue.
Good luck to ya and happy Photoshopping.
Update:
Once you install the font you can delete it. When you click install it makes a copy of the font and places it in your font folder so you no longer need the first one
Side question:
How many fonts do you have approximately?
Don't worry about the space used by fonts and brushes. Fonts are only a few mb at most and brushes are only a few kb.
You have so much storage that it just does not make a difference.
Also what you want to do is not a function built into the Mac os or Photoshop.
You would have to write a custom script that would create a symbolic link to the external directory that contains the fonts and another for the brushes before Photoshop loads.
CAN I BACK UP MY PC FILES WITH MAC PORTABLE HARD DRIVE?
Q. I have windows 7 now,but I plan to own a Mac soon. Would a Mac hard drive back up windows files too?
Answer
The answer to this is complicated, but I found a good article here: http://thelightroomlab.com/2009/01/formatting-an-external-hard-drive/
You should read it carefully (maybe twice) to learn about disk formats, it is a very good thing to know about. Learning to format your hard drives properly is a great idea. Also, partitioning your drive into 2 sections with different formats works if you don't need to access files across Operating Systems. You can use Google to learn how to partition a drive on your Operating System fairly easily. I usually just use Dropbox to send files from my Mac to my PC or vice versa.
The answer to this is complicated, but I found a good article here: http://thelightroomlab.com/2009/01/formatting-an-external-hard-drive/
You should read it carefully (maybe twice) to learn about disk formats, it is a very good thing to know about. Learning to format your hard drives properly is a great idea. Also, partitioning your drive into 2 sections with different formats works if you don't need to access files across Operating Systems. You can use Google to learn how to partition a drive on your Operating System fairly easily. I usually just use Dropbox to send files from my Mac to my PC or vice versa.
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