scratch disc full when boot

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soft_wolf
May 19, 2004
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need some help.. when i try to run photoshop i get the error "scratch disc is full" got 1024mb ram and 4gb free space on the disc photoshop is installed, so it must be set to store somewhere else, but as i cant open photoshop i dont how to change these settings. tried searching for Prefs.psp but i dont have it..
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dave_milbut
May 19, 2004
either clear some space on the drive where you have ps scratch set to (or all drives if you’ve forgotten) or reset the prefrences per the faq:

Mathias Vejerslev "How to delete/reset Photoshop preferences" 2/11/03 1:04pm </cgi-bin/webx?50>

that’ll set the scratch disk to "Startup", that is, whatever drive PS is installed on. you’ll need to make sure you have enough free space on that drive to start.
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soft_wolf
May 19, 2004
did that but it still wouldnt work.. but i tried cleaning space on my windows drive and now it works 🙂
well thx anyway
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dave_milbut
May 19, 2004
great. consider investing in another hard drive if things are that tight. massive, fast drives are available at a reasonable price now!
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LenHewitt
May 19, 2004
Dave,

that’ll set the scratch disk to "Startup", that is, whatever drive PS is
installed on<<

Not so. ‘Startup’ refers to the System startup drive %system% (which for most folks will be c:\)
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dave_milbut
May 19, 2004
didn’t know that. thanks len!

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