First of all, what in the heck is a scratch disk?? Everytime I try to start a new poject on my Adobe Photoshop 4 LE this evil alert comes up saying that the scratch disk is full and it can’t do anymore projects or.. something. I tried going into preferances and changing the scratch disk to my hard drive, but that still didn’t work… Anyone care to shed some light on the issue? It’s really annoying me because I have to get this web page done.. NOW…..
It means your hard drive is full so Photoshop doesn’t find enough drive space to build its scratch disks.
Photoshop uses part of a hard drive (several GB) as its internal Virtual Memory if you will. In Photoshop’s preferences, you designate on which hard drive you want the scratch disk to reside.
If you don’t designate a scratch disk, Photoshop uses your hard drive by default. When there’s not enough space left on your hard drive, you get the error message you did.
The solution is, obviously, to make more hard drive space available to Photoshop, either by designating the scratch disk to reside on a separate hard drive, by getting a larger hard drive, or by deleting enough files from your existing hard drive to make space for the scratch disk.
Ideally, your scratch disk should be on a dedicated volume (partition) on a separate hard drive, so it doesn’t slow you down. Some users dedicate up to 30GB or more to such a dedicated partition. Figure on at least 15 or 20 times the size of the largest Photoshop file you work with.
What OS are you on (exact version), how much RAM do you have installed and how much of that is allocated to Photoshop? How big is your hard drive and how much available space is left on it? Do you have additional hard drives?
Regardless of the scratch disk issue, if your hard drive gets to be 85% full, you’re in trouble already.
How can you be using your hard drive and not be aware how full it is??
That reminds me of the first release of Macintosh System 3. If you ran out of disk (diskette) space it simply deleted or overwrote other files without your knowledge or permission, as needed. Worst Apple release ever.
Heh, it never told me anything about some bloody scratch disk, or how much space I was usuing with it… But well, we can’t expect it to work properly, remember, I have a mac 9.2.. grrrrrr. I don’t like this machine.
Mhhhmkay. I removed and deleted 2000 files and still.. the disk is apparently full.. Should I just continue deleting files? I mean.. I can’t hav everything on disk….
On Windows, the scratch files are named " ~pst[numbers].TMP ", if someone could say how they are named on Mac, shut down photoshop and look if there are some left on your HD… the can be really big!
quote" Heh, it never told me anything about some bloody scratch disk, or how much space I was usuing with it…" in your car, the empty gaz tank warning light will never annoy you as long as there is gaz in the bloody tank… 😉
On Windows, the scratch files are named " ~pst[numbers].TMP ", if someone could say how they are named on Mac
In OS 9.2.2, they are inside an invisible folder named "Cleanup At Startup" and are simply named "Photoshop Temp[number]". You can’t see them or delete them except with software like DeskZap or ResEdit, both of which can be pretty dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.
I used to use a nice little freeware application called "Eradicator" for deleting unwanted Temp files from the earlier versions of Photoshop on Mac OS9.
I just went to check out Eradicator and it seems it only works on the "Temporary Items" folder, which is of course a great help, but that’s not where the Photoshop scratch disk files are –at least not if your scratch disk is on a separate drive from your boot drive, since such separate drives or volumes do not have a "Temporary Items" folder.
As I said, the Photoshop scratch files are inside an invisible folder named "Cleanup At Startup". My guess is that there will be one with the same name created on the boot drive too if that’s where the scratch disk has been defined. If so, Eradicator won’t affect the Photoshop files.
As I recall, the problem was that the .tmp files remained invisible and did not get get moved to the "Cleanup At Startup" folder — they just bred in dark places all over the HD.
But all of this was long ago in a distant galaxy — and I may not have even had a second HD in those daysÂ…Â…
Pierre, please don’t confuse the issue there was OS 9.0.1 – 9.0.4 all suffered from the temp file bug. Apple released OS 9.1 that fixed the bug among other things. Of course you wouldn’t know this not having used a Mac.
Hes, Buko, it was just the discussioon about a coma that amused me… anyways, some people call photoshop 7.01 "7.1" and that does not help to the confusion…
And I did use macs at school… If only they were affordable, I’d get one!
Buko, I did not have fun of your operating system… (deleted the part about having to put a floppy into the trashcan to eject it, or using the keyboard for Right+Click 😉 ) As I said, I wish I had one!
