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Is there a better way to free up scratch disk space than what I’m doing? I have 1.15 GB of scratch on one system and when working on a large file for print sometimes end up allocating 3-4 GB (watching the ‘scratch size’ number in the bottom-left window), meaning I’m working off the scratch disk a lot. Once the edits are done on a file I typically make a copy, convert to 8 bits, flatten and save as a tiff for printing.
Then when I do Edit > Purge > All the scratch size still stays high even though the file size doesn’t warrant it. For example on a file I just worked on the scratch amount is 2.05 GB with one flat tiff file open after doing the steps described above, while if I close Photoshop and re-open this same tiff file I need less than 1 GB of scratch space.
I guess the question boils down to ‘why doesn’t Photoshop free up the RAM when I purge?’ and ‘is there a way to clear the RAM space without closing and re-opening Photoshop?’ This is with CS and XP.
Bill
Then when I do Edit > Purge > All the scratch size still stays high even though the file size doesn’t warrant it. For example on a file I just worked on the scratch amount is 2.05 GB with one flat tiff file open after doing the steps described above, while if I close Photoshop and re-open this same tiff file I need less than 1 GB of scratch space.
I guess the question boils down to ‘why doesn’t Photoshop free up the RAM when I purge?’ and ‘is there a way to clear the RAM space without closing and re-opening Photoshop?’ This is with CS and XP.
Bill
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