Within the past few days, my photoshop program has been telling me that I can't save files because the scratch disk is full. How do I go about emptying a scratch disc. Thanks for any help...
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Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Is your computer HD getting real full? This happened to me and I tried increasing the scratch disk space but it never helped. I think it went away when I re-formatted.
Posted by John Milleker (Member # 4572) on :
Thats the most common reason, either that or Photoshop is hitting an error on your disk. Ultimately, but by no means necessary Photoshop really likes a primary scratch disk on a partition other than your boot drive. You can even set multiple scratch disks.
You can view and modify these settings by going to 'Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks' in photoshop.
quote:Originally posted by Laura Butler: Is your computer HD getting real full? This happened to me and I tried increasing the scratch disk space but it never helped. I think it went away when I re-formatted.
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
a scratch disc is some space, somewhere, that photoshop uses to figure things out, other than storing data in the RAM. It works far better if you assign a separate empty or mostly empty partition for it to use as a scratch disc, other than C drive. Under Preferences, (as mentioned above) you can give it some choices in order of preference, as for where to do this figuring out. If you have only one partition, the c drive, you haven't much choice. If you've assigned some other partition, then maybe you can do some deleting to free up that space again for it. It will still work, but much more slowly if you don't attend to the problem.
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
I was having the same problem on a workstation with an 8 GB hard drive that was loaded to the point of only having about 1.5 GB free space.
I had my local computer guy come in and clone the drive, transfer it to a new 30 GB drive and then reformat the 8 GB as a dedicated scratch disk for Photoshop.
By comparison, it now flies.
Posted by Bill Cosharek (Member # 1274) on :
Partitioning is the answer, as you can specify (I think) up to 4 locations, but don't overlook the setting for multiple Undos. These are the memory hogs which save screens after each change you make until the last one as set is made. Then, the cycle begins by deleting the 1st and including the next change. This can add up to quite a bit of memory if you have a lot of Undo's set.
Another thing to consider is, if you have partitions, to move the systems Virtual Memory to a partition of its own; with lots of memory it needs. Don't be afraid because the message says don't move it. Once moved, that message will update to include the new location the next time you access it.
Posted by David Overholt (Member # 2096) on :
Thanks to all that replied... As usual the Letterheads come thru in the end. Thanks again.
