Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Scratch disk almost full??

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Scratch disk almost full??

John A. Stovall

2004-01-25, 11:28 am

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.

Mark Herring

2004-01-25, 4:28 pm

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:21:13 GMT, John A. Stovall
<johnastovall@earthlink.net> wrote:

quote:

>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".

Deco_time

2004-01-25, 6:28 pm

John A. Stovall wrote:

quote:

> 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?

edjh

2004-01-25, 9:28 pm

Deco_time wrote:

quote:

> John A. Stovall wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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Deco_time

2004-01-25, 11:28 pm

edjh wrote:

quote:

> Poor parenting.

Here we go again, blaming the parent for childrens misbehavior :)

nikki

2004-01-26, 3:28 am

"Deco_time" <coral_city2000@NOSPAMyahoo.ca> wrote in message news:<uDWQb.792$mf4.171655@news20.bellglobal.com>...

quote:

> John A. Stovall wrote:
>
> 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

Bob Davis

2004-01-28, 12:28 am

"Mark Herring" <Nomarkh@surfcity.net> wrote in message
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quote:

> 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.

quote:

> 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

2004-01-28, 12:28 am

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:13:18 -0600, "Bob Davis" <iclick@coxNIX.net>
wrote:

quote:

>
>"Mark Herring" <Nomarkh@surfcity.net> wrote in message
>news:ie8810lbmm6urv2k00go2q18a9njhoavct@4ax.com...
>
>
>
>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.

quote:

>
>
>
>
>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".