Scratch disk almost full??

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:21:13 GMT, John A. Stovall
wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop and have 7.01 installed. I’m now starting to get when I start it the following message:

"The selected scratch disks are almost full."

What do I need to do? Can I just clear the current disk area out (if so how?)? I have just one 80gig disk on my system with 63gig still free. I’ve defragged it to no affect.

I don’t find anything on this in the help.

Photoshop wants you to set up the scratch disk on a separate volume—preferably on a separate physical drive. With just one drive, at least set up a separate partition for PS scratch.

The only other thing that **might** relate is the memory allocation—whatever RAM you have, give most of it to PS. **************************
Mark Herring, Pasadena, Calif.
Private e-mail: Just say no to "No".

John A. Stovall wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop and have 7.01 installed. I’m now starting to get when I start it the following message:

"The selected scratch disks are almost full."

What do I need to do? Can I just clear the current disk area out (if so how?)? I have just one 80gig disk on my system with 63gig still free. I’ve defragged it to no affect.

I don’t find anything on this in the help.

I had the same problem, and that with over 130GBs free on 2 drives. I simply deleted the preference file and the problem went away.
BTW, anybody knows why the pref file get so easily corrupted?

Deco_time wrote:

John A. Stovall wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop and have 7.01 installed. I’m now starting to get when I start it the following message:

"The selected scratch disks are almost full."

What do I need to do? Can I just clear the current disk area out (if so how?)? I have just one 80gig disk on my system with 63gig still free. I’ve defragged it to no affect.

I don’t find anything on this in the help.

I had the same problem, and that with over 130GBs free on 2 drives. I simply deleted the preference file and the problem went away.
BTW, anybody knows why the pref file get so easily corrupted?

Poor parenting.

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edjh wrote:

Poor parenting.

Here we go again, blaming the parent for childrens misbehavior 🙂

"Deco_time" …

John A. Stovall wrote:

I’m new to Photoshop and have 7.01 installed. I’m now starting to get when I start it the following message:

"The selected scratch disks are almost full."

What do I need to do? Can I just clear the current disk area out (if so how?)? I have just one 80gig disk on my system with 63gig still free. I’ve defragged it to no affect.

I don’t find anything on this in the help.

I had the same problem, and that with over 130GBs free on 2 drives. I simply deleted the preference file and the problem went away.
BTW, anybody knows why the pref file get so easily corrupted?

I have read in several opinions on corrupt preference files. The one that makes sense and has worked for me is that closing folders and applications too fast will cause lost and corrupted data. A suggestion is to take time in between closing files and closing Photoshop. Don’t open another program too quickly after closing PS. I havn’t had a corrupted file in the last six months since I started this procedure.
Nikki

"Mark Herring" wrote in message

Photoshop wants you to set up the scratch disk on a separate volume—preferably on a separate physical drive.

The pressing question is, should the scratch disk be on the fastest disk or simply a separate physical drive? I did some unscientific tests a year or two ago and the fastest disk yielded the fastest output.

The only other thing that **might** relate is the memory allocation—whatever RAM you have, give most of it to PS.

With 2gb total, I allocated 1.5gb (75%) to PSCS, but experienced occasional slowdowns due to page file access. Adobe old me to allocate only 40-50% (now at 50%) and the problem hasn’t resurfaced. Apparently, CS is more sensitive to high levels of memory allocation than previous versions of PS.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:13:18 -0600, "Bob Davis" wrote:

"Mark Herring" wrote in message

Photoshop wants you to set up the scratch disk on a separate volume—preferably on a separate physical drive.

The pressing question is, should the scratch disk be on the fastest disk or simply a separate physical drive? I did some unscientific tests a year or two ago and the fastest disk yielded the fastest output.

This makes sense—the scratch file is where you have all the undo levels, etc. PS is probably writing and reading constantly. The drive with the working file is not accessed until you do a save.

The only other thing that **might** relate is the memory allocation—whatever RAM you have, give most of it to PS.

With 2gb total, I allocated 1.5gb (75%) to PSCS, but experienced occasional slowdowns due to page file access. Adobe old me to allocate only 40-50% (now at 50%) and the problem hasn’t resurfaced. Apparently, CS is more sensitive to high levels of memory allocation than previous versions of PS.

**************************
Mark Herring, Pasadena, Calif.
Private e-mail: Just say no to "No".