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 [Photoshopsupport.com] Photoshop Blog - Photoshop News & Photoshop Tips ...: In this case, when document data no longer fits in the 3.5GB of Photoshop RAM and is written to the scratch file, the operating system stores it in the extra RAM and can retrieve it from there much faster than it could be read from disk. This lets Photoshop take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM to significantly increase performance with very large documents.

[Nielsenhayden.com] Making Light: Hardware failure.: "Alternatively, our friends at DriveSavers tell us they've been successful in recovering data from drives that experienced this problem. Better still, DriveSavers is offering a discount to customers who have lost data as a result of the specific Panther and FireWire 800 issue.

 [Macosxhints.com] macosxhints.com - Use MacDrive on Windows to read a 'dead' HFS disk: Unfortunately, in my circumstance it didn't work. And now, also unfortunately, I have a idea of what data recovery costs as well.

 [Oreilly.com] oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Data Recovery Software, 446 Data Rescue, 448 databases, backing up, 542 .DriveSavers, 446 Drop Box directory, 500 DVD burner speed, 467 .

[Fileslinger.com] FileSlingerâ™ Backup Blog: Sunday's Kickstartnews Revue podcast (still playing in my headphones as I start to type) features an interview with the team that created Lifeboat: Judy Tyabji Wilson, Jonathan Lyster, and James Mogan of Canada's Tugboat Enterprises. Lifeboat is a single-minded program: all it does is give you a way to take data off your computer when your Windows operating system fails.

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