Scratch Disks are full

• dermotcw

  Participant

  March 1, 2009 at 4:40 pm

  Can anybody explain what and how these work? Have been getting messages using CS3
  Thanks
  RaV

  Member

  March 1, 2009 at 4:47 pm

  edit -> preferences -> performance

  A scratch disk is basically just a certain amount of space on a certain hard drive that photoshop my use if RAM gets full or for storing undo’s/redo’s ect. Like temp storage.
  It probably goes for drive C by default, which seems like it is close to full in your case. is it? selecting another drive with more free space as the default scratch disk should help
  BM

  Participant

  March 1, 2009 at 4:51 pm

  It’s covered in Help.

  You need to make more space available on teh disk that is set up as teh scratch disk – or else change the scratch disk (using Edit – Preferences – Performance).
  dermotcw

  Participant

  March 1, 2009 at 4:53 pm

  Thanks for the info, that has solved the problem
  Enzyme

  Participant

  April 16, 2009 at 10:53 pm

  You get much better performance if you use an internal drive or an external esata drive (which is as fast as an internal sata drive) which is used exclusively as a scratch disk. You can get an esata drive for under €100 these days. You’ll need an esata card on your computer if you do.

  For the bit of cost I would highly recommend it though. My TIFFs are upwards of about 400megs and there is a big fall off in performance if my esata scratch disk drive isn’t turned on.