If I have 4 Scratch disks does photoshop use all scratch simultaneously or does it wait for the first scratch to fill up before it starts to use the next one ?
View 1 RepliesI have a problem with Scratch disks in Photoshop CS. I am trying to work with PSB format. Every time I do an operation on a large file (even as small as 1 GB PSB)I get the Scratch Disk dialogue Error- Scratch Disks full. Code:
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have Photoshop CS3 (and Windows Vista) and just recently every time I attempt to crop, it gives me the error message that my scratch disks is full. I went into my Preferences and put my C: drive as my first choice (which is only about 10 percent full) and my D: drive as my second. I have a new HP with the D: drive being the recovery portion of the hard drive. I have gone in and cleaned it out. I have restarted both Photoshop and my computer. I read online that you can clean out all of the temp files but it did not say where to locate them. I have searched for "#pst" files. I also can't find my "Local Settings" (because Vista still confuses me) to find temp folders. The only temp folders, I can find has nothing to do with Photoshop.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a problem with Photoshop CS3.
It says that my scratch disks are full. I had it one time when I started PS, and now when I'm brushing.
so I got the 'scratch disks are full' message when I tried opening new projects. After googling, I read to just change the location to another hard drive instead of the main one, so I went into preferences, unchecked the C drive & checked the E drive. Now photoshop won't let me open it. I get this message:
"Could not open a scratch file because the fil eis locked, you do not have nexassary access permissions, or another program is using the file. Use the 'properties' command in the Windows Explorer to unlock the file." how do I do this, exactly?
I just installed Photoshop 7.0 on my Windows 7 system. When the program first booted I got the message that I should put the scratch disk on a seperate volume. I was not allowed time to do this even if I new how. Now the program will not load. I get the message Scratch Disks Full.
View 6 Replies View RelatedEvery time I click,File ->New, it says, "Can not create a new document because the scratch disks are full." What is a scratch disk and how do I make it empty so that I can create a new document?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI get a message when trying to open up photoshop 6.0 and says scratch disks are full and not enough memoery to initialize MP library.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have tons of space and ram available on my machine. This error msg occurs when I try to crop. I have gone as far as to reinstall PS [but kept my preferences]. Scratch is set to my c: drive and the default 50%. Any suggestions on what else I might try?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been using ps6 program has halted on me and come up with an error telling me my scratch disks are full.
I've got the photshop bible and the adobe book on ps6 but neither explain it very well or give me any clue as to how I should make my scratch disks bigger?
I can not complete any action while in photoshop because the scratch disks are full. I have already run into the Performance Preferences and allowed the program to use the 7.09 GB I have of free space. I am about to throw out the laptop through the windows....
View 16 Replies View Relatedhow do I empty my scratch disks?
I need them empty so I can scan some images...
PS CS3
I am trying to crop a JPG slightly to get a specific size. I have set the size in the toolbar of the crop tool and draw the crop mask, but when I try to complete the crop it says "Cannot complete your request because the scratch disks are full". I have two disks on this machine, one with 26GB free and the other with 77GB free and this is only a 250x970px image. I did several prior crops on the same image among other operations, but wanted to use the exact size on this one since it needs to fit in a rotating banner for a website. I can crop it if I leave out the exact size, but then, of course, I am only guessing at the size.
I cannot initialize Photoshop 7 because the scratch disks are full.
View 3 Replies View Relatedcould not use brush too because the scratch disks are full
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had a really big file open and suddenly my computer crashes. And now when I select the Startup as scratch disk it always sais the scratch disks are full. Even when I restart PS or my comp, the message stays. So I have to select a different drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am creating an extremely large file to be printed @ over 20 feet long. I've been in touch with the printer who told me that my original file, at 1/4 scale and 100 DPI was not high enough resolution, 1/4 would have to be 400 PPI, which is where I am now.
View 25 Replies View RelatedMy CS6 Photoshop can no longer find scratch disks and won't load... I have reloaded the software but it still won't load and gives me the same error.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working with a fairly large CMYK document, 300dpi 160inches x 38inches. On disk it registers as just under 3.69gigs as a .PSB file, and as 1.53g/18.0g in Photoshop's Document Sizes info panel. I'm using CS6 extended.
I'm at the point where I can barely work with this thing any longer, as nearly any time I attempt to run a filter or make basic transformations, I get the "scratch disks full" error and PS is unable to complete the task. I'm also receiving the same error when attempting to save changes to the file to disk.
The thing is, in my performance preferences I have an external HDD with 330gigs of available space set as the primary hard drive, and am still getting this error. If I switch the primary scratch to a second internal 7200rpm HDD with 60gigs available, I don't have that issue for the first couple of operations, until the PS temporary file baloons to 40+gigs and I start getting the error again, necessitating a restart of Photoshop which of course loses my unsaved changes. I've also tried allocating my two internal SSD drives (Windows 7 and applications) as the 3rd and 4th scratch disks, which doesn't seem to work at all. They both have only around 5gigs free each.
When I try to open Elements it says the Scratch Disks are full. How do I correct this problem?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have 180 GB of free space on my scratch disk and I try to open 558 MB file, but I still get the "Could not complete your request because the scratch disks are full." -message. I have 8 GB of RAM and no other major programs on. What to do?
View 16 Replies View RelatedInstalled Photoshop Elements 11 and get an error msg when I try to open "Unable to initialize Photoshop Elements because the sratch disks are full"
Running Dell/Windows 7...Have 1.8TB hard drive with 1.3TB free.
Just intslled Elements 2.0 on my HP Pavillion running Win 7 (64-bit) and got "Could not initialize Photoshop Elements because the scratch disks are full". What gives, what this is referring to.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to start the program for the first time - just installed it - I get the error message "Could not initialize Photoshop Elements because the scratch disks are full". The error is a fatal one - big cross on the left had side - program closes when you press OK
View 12 Replies View RelatedPremier Pro on a MAC.
Error code:
Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable. To open this project,, the scratch disks will be set to your Documents folder. Would you like to continue?
I have recently bought an SSD (sandisk 120GB) which i have installed windows on. i have another 500gb internal drive which is empty and am wondering whether i should install photoshop on the 500gb drive and put the scratch disk on the SSD or the other way round.
View 4 Replies View Relatedhow an SSD differs from a regular hard drive, there is no drop in performance when your stratch disk is assigned to the same SSD containing your Photoshop app.. I heard this setup is much faster than the conventional setup of having your app and scratch disk on separate hard drives.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have just built my new rig (Asus p9x79 pro, 32GB 1600Mhz DDR3, Intel 3820, old GTX285 1GB, Win7 pro.....many hard drives ) as I am working on a very big project producing 440x240cm200ppi digital drawings to be installed as lightbox artworks at the same size.
My old system just could not cope with the demands I was putting on it as It only had 12gb RAM. I have two scratch disks set up x1 30gb SSD (dedicated) and x1 240gb SSD ( has other stuff on it with 75gb free ). I am also using Photoshop CS5 Extended (updated) with RAM usage set to 80% (23976).
While I realise PS will still make use of the scratch disk despite the amount of RAM I was shocked to see the first drive (30gb) was almost full with 5gb space left when I loaded the PSB file with x9 layers. Looking at the meta data in Bridge it tells me the file size is 6.90GB with pixel dimensions of 34646x18898@200ppi. Windows reports that I am only using 20GB of my 32GB..
Shouldn't PS be using more RAM before going to the slower reads on a SSD? Windows Task Manager tells me I have 8150 RAM cached, 12310 RAM Available and 4215 RAM Free. If Photoshop is not using the 12GB would it be wise to make a 9GB RAM DISK for an addition boost...not even sure if that would work, but, I hate the feeling of having all that RAM and 1/3 not being used.
On my system I have a 120Gb SSD with programs (40GB free) and a 3TB HDD for all my photo files.
Looking at the settings in CS6 it seems as if it has automatically selected my SSD for the scratch folder although in the hints it suggests that the scratch folder should not be your boot drive, however, the fastest drive is probably best. What do you recommed? leave it as it is or change the scratch to the HDD?
I intend to acquire ps cs4 andi have a 64 bit machine with 32gb of ram...problem is it would be difficult for me to set up a different scratch disc...how much ram would one need in order to see no benefit from a scratch disc ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI added a second hard drive and would like to know how to best set it up for use as a scratch disk.
The default in the Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks dialogue box was:
First: Startup
Second: None
Third: None
Fourth: None
I'm wondering if I should change the first to the new drive or keep it as "startup" and add the new drive to second.