I keep getting the error message when I start Photoshop 7: "The currently selected scratch disks are almost full" although I have 60+ GB of empty hard drive space.
I have a single HD (c:). I have defragmented the HD, deleted the prefs file, reinstalled Photoshop 7 (updated to 7.0.1), switched the scratch disk from C: to Startup and back again (although the startup disk is C:) and done everything else suggested.
When I select System Info, I get:
Built-in memory: 1022 MB
Free memory: 608 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 931 MB
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 74.44 GB, 63.96 GB free
C:\, 74.44 GB, 63.96 GB free
C:\, 74.44 GB, 63.96 GB free
Startup, 74.44 GB, 63.96 GB free
Give this a whirl 🙂
Ian Lyons "Scratch disk and memory full error messages in Adobe Photoshop" 2/10/03 5:06pm </cgi-bin/webx?50>
While doing a search on the forums I came across this thread. Makes for an interesting read. Maybe there is something there (ie. running any Norton apps?). What I get from this thread (that applies to your situation) is that something is eating away at your system resources.
dave milbut "Laptop Scratchdisk question… partition, or no?" 3/22/03 8:00am </cgi-bin/webx?13/2>
Hopefully, someone more technically inclined has an idea what is going on here. I am at a loss as it seems you have tried everything <shrug>.
try setting all the other scratch locations to None. Listing the same drive multiple times does nothing. The only other thing I can figure is maybe you don’t have admin rights to the box?
Thanks for your replies. I tried all combinations of scratch disk setting. Startup; C:; all to C:; all to None (except primary).
I work for a big company so we have some software (anti-virus, etc. ) that we are required to run, but I’ve never had this problem on my previous PCs (I also currently have a ThinkPad – 28 GB free HD space – no problems.) Not running any Norton stuff, by the way.
I have no problems working with files. I just created a 50-in x 50-in, 300 ppi image (643 MB file size) to test this. Did some drawing, and I added layers. Added 2 type layers. Ran Gaussian blur, rasterized the type, etc. and saved the file with no problems. I then opened -another- new 50×50 image (while the other was still open) did some drawing and gaussian blur – no problems whatsoever. I don’t notice any slowdowns – just the annoying startup message.
I’ll look at MSCONFIG
But do you have administrator or at least power user rights on your machine?
Yes, I have administrator rights.
I set scratch to primarty: c:, all others: none, turned off a few things in MSConfig (recent things I had installed) and restarted. No problems. Slowly turned each on, restarted. Finally, all are back on. No problems right now.
