Scratch disks

[pcgui2001]

hey guys,
i know this isnt the right thread to ask this but...
what does it mean when i open photoshop and it says
"cannot open photoshop because scratch disks are full" and what do i do to fix the problem?

Thanks

[(jj)]

Your "scratch disk" is the amount of memory and/or hard drive space set aside for Photoshop to use.

It sounds like either you do not have enough free hard drive space on the drive, or that you have some lost clusters or File Allocation problems on the drive.

My first suggestion would be to run defrag on the drive and then try opening Photoshop again.

Other than that, you can go to Adobe's support section and try some of the other suggestions....

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/c1c6.htm


Just my "For What It's Worth"

[grendel]

Hello,

Defrag is a good idea, as was just pointed out.
I've had this error a few times myself, and each time it was repaired with just a reboot. Gotta loooove how easy some issues are in Windows!

[pcgui2001]

actually i tried rebooting a few time and it would still do the same thing. what i did was uninstall it and re-install it and now its working fine.

Thanks again

[komik]

The scratch disk are the area photoshop uses for temporary storage. Or memory. The default is usually the Temp directory on Windows this is way too small for this. The error may also occur when you RAM is getting overrun and must use the hard disk for memory space [not enough RAM]. The best thing to prevent this is to reduce the number of history items. Each time a change is made in photoshop and creates a history item the entire image is actually saved to a memory location. The more history items the more space needed. Adobe has some great ways to reduce this. So basically the scratch disk is the area of memory space required not only to start Photoshop but that needed to render the object to you on the screen... and have the ability to go back or undo....This is what the scatch disks are used for mainly. Easiest way to prevent this is buy cheap hard drive leave it empty and set it to your scatch disk space. This may also helps with performance.

If this doesn't work go to any book store and pick up a tips and tricks book almost all of them have a section on this.

I have a 40GB hard disk just dedicated for photoshop. But some of my images get really large at times. I am sure it is overkill too..but hey they are cheap these days.

[blurchy]

hey there

if you have another spare hard drive

open up photoshop and goto the top menu

and select

edit/preferences/plugins and scratch disks

and youll see a few drop down lists

in those lists youll see any hard drives you may have

im lucky enough to have two hard drives so i set

my scratch disk to D drive IF you have the choice

set the scratch disk to a drive that DOESNT contain

your operating system

and it will work more efficiently

and might prevent it from happening again

[TERRELL]

I guess we killed 2 birds with ones stone because I just was gonna ask that question.And lookee here at all these answers.Gee,I love powweb *sniff**sniff*