Computer Help: Scratch Disk

“I downloaded some pics tonight. I want to open them in my Adobe PhotoDeluxe to do some editing. But, I get an error message that tells me that Adobe can't open because my "scratch disk" is full. Which is all just fine except that I have no idea what a "scratch disk" is and how to find it and empty it... It can't be my hard drive cause I still have 26+GB of free space.

I did a google search and it took me to the Adobe website. All it says is that I need to make room on my "scratch disk". Great. How?

Thanks! :-)”

“Solutions

Do one of the following:


Solution 1
On the hard disk partition you designate for scratch disk files, make sure you have free disk space equal to 3-5 times the size of the file you're trying to open. If the file you're opening has many channels or layers, its file size in the Image > Image Size dialog box when opened may be larger than its file size in Windows Explorer, requiring even larger scratch disk files.


Solution 2
Choose File > Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks, specify a hard disk partition that has more free space as the primary scratch disk, and then specify a secondary (or for Photoshop 5.x, a third and fourth) scratch disk. For Photoshop 4.0.x, do not specify the same hard disk partition for both the primary and secondary scratch disks.”

“Photoshop uses a scratch disk file (i.e., temporary disk space used for storing data and performing computations) when there is insufficient RAM for image editing. You can set up to two scratch disks in Photoshop 4.0.x, and each can be up to 2 GB. Each scratch disk must be on a separate hard drive partition. This means in Photoshop 4.0.x if you have 5 GB free on an unpartitioned hard drive, and all scratch disks are assigned to it, Photoshop can use up to 2 GB of space in one scratch disk file. To use the full 4 GB, partition your hard drives so that there are as many partitions as there are scratch disks you want to use. In Photoshop 5.x, you can assign up to four partitions for scratch disk files. Although the scratch disk files still have a limit of 2 GB each, Photoshop 5.x can write as many scratch disks per partition as there is free disk space. This means if you have 5 GB free on an unpartitioned hard drive, and all scratch disks are assigned to it, Photoshop 5.x can use up to 5 GB of space in three scratch disk files (2 GB, 2 GB, 1GB).”

“Glad you cleared that up, Phaed. Thought she simply downladed too many 'Fat Boys' songs...”

“Soooooooooooo...

Tara, do ya know how to partition a hard drive??

c'mon, Phae... that's the next instruction we need”

“You don't need to partition the drive.... overracting explanation to look smarter.”

“Well, I wasn't sure that I understood what I needed to do, but I was going to give it a try today. But, when I powered up and opened a pic in PhotoDeluxe, everything seemed to work fine.

Sometimes, computers just baffle me.

Either way, thanks Phaed, for your help!”

“Thanks Phag for flexing your 'knowledge'.”

“TPM's appearance on this thread reminds me of a commercial I just saw...

"Where will you be when diarrhea returns?"”

“Well, I have heard the theory of "partitioning a hard drive," but don't know how to do it in reality. (P.S. Yes, I know how to "wipe" a hard drive and how to do a "system restore," so am not a complete nincompoop! hehee)”

“re *.*

del *.*

Are You Sure? (Y/N)?


(what was the command in DOS/VSE... ?)”

“Phaedrus is correct in how to allocate the drive space. To answer the question more directly is deletling your temp files. You can find them in windows. The easiest way to clean up you computer is by going to Start/Programs/Accessories/system tools/clean disk. I would recommend doing this for anyone a least once a month. This will clean out all the temp files everywhere. It give you a choice to what files you want to delete and keep. I delete everything. Then I do a defrage or at least see if I need to defrag. If you want to know how to defrag, post again.”

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