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Darren Chapman
Oct 14, 2005
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Yesterday evening after a days work, PS CS errored regarding my scratch disk. My PC hasn’t much memory nor space, so frequently I have to close down a few images to free up space once Im over 500Mb in images.

Only this time my 2 hdds had 3gb and 6gb free. Even when I reboot my pc it still errors. It wont even allow me to crop a jpeg of 40kb.

Looking on the primary scratch disk, (D/) on opening PS it automatically creates a hidden file 404mb in size.

Is this correct? I’ve never had any trouble with it before until today.

Thanks
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 14, 2005
my 2 hdds had 3gb and 6gb free

That is very little in terms of scratch space. My number two drive has a 20GB partition just for Photoshop’s scratch.

on opening PS it automatically creates a hidden file 404mb in size. Is this correct?

Yes – and it will increase considerably in size as you work on a file.

My suggestion would be to go out and buy a new HD. Meanwhile free up as much space as you can. (you should never run a drive more than 85% full)

Do a system-wide search for .TMP files and delete the lot! And always close Photoshop down properly before switching your computer off.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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LenHewitt
Oct 14, 2005
You sure you weren’t trying to ‘crop’ an image to something like 400 inches rather than 400 pixels?

That’s the normal cause…
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D._Craig_Flory
Oct 14, 2005
I have barely enough resources and I have 1 gig of ram and 3 hard drives … an 80 gig internal, a 40 gig internal and a 40 gig external. Anyone with less than those meager amounts will have problems. Also, it matters which one is 1st, 2nd, or 3rd scratch disc. I have my 40 gig internal as 1st scratch disc … since Windows XP is on that drive as well as all programs. My 2nd is the 80 gig and my 3rd is the external 40 gig. You should NEVER have your main scratch disc the same as your operating system and programs.

D. Craig Flory
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YrbkMgr
Oct 14, 2005
You should NEVER have your main scratch disc the same as your operating system and programs.

That is inaccurate.
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D._Craig_Flory
Oct 15, 2005
That is NOT inacurrate ! Ask any adobe people and you will be told that. If you only have one hard drive it should be partitioned. But in that case the partition, with the OS and programs, should still be the last scratch disc. Do you teach Photoshop ? I do.

D. Craig Flory
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John_Bean_UK
Oct 15, 2005
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That is NOT inacurrate

My understanding is the scratch disk shouldn’t be on the same disk as (one of) the system’s paging file(s) ("swap file"). By default this is the same disk as the OS boots from, but it isn’t necessarily how it stays configured – my boot disk has no paging file for example. When Photoshop checks and issues it’s warning about how the scratch disks are configured it checks to see if there’s a paging file on the same disk. It takes no notice of whether or not the OS and/or programs are on the same drive.

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John Bean
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John Joslin
Oct 15, 2005
If you only have one physical drive, you cannot avoid having both paging File and Photoshop Scratch disk on it. Partitioning will help keeping the spaces individually defragmented but it will not avoid the contention for the read/write heads between the the demands of OS paging and Photoshop Scratching.

Therefore, Teach, the categorical statement "You should NEVER have your main scratch disc the same as your operating system and programs." is indeed inaccurate.

Strike "NEVER have" and insert "try to avoid where possible having".

Just a bit of nit-picking 🙂
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YrbkMgr
Oct 15, 2005
If you only have one hard drive it should be partitioned.

Also inaccurate – unless you can do so in such a way so as to access two parts of a physical hard drive at the same time.

BTW, thanks John <smile>.
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Bob Levine
Oct 16, 2005
As far as performance, I do agree with that, but I still think partioning makes for a more organized harddrive. It also makes it far easier to reinstall the operating system and programs without erasing all of your data at the same time.

Of course your data should always be backed up.

Bob

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