Help – Scratch disk

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tony
May 3, 2006
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I use photoshop CS. Anything is in order until early this week. When I crop photo, it keep displaying a message saying that my scratch disk is full but i have at least free 20GB harddisk space.
Can anyone offer me a hand?
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iehsmith
May 3, 2006
On 5/3/06 3:14 AM, tony commented:

I use photoshop CS. Anything is in order until early this week. When I crop photo, it keep displaying a message saying that my scratch disk is full but i have at least free 20GB harddisk space.
Can anyone offer me a hand?

Ideally your Scratch Disk would be on a separate, dedicated hard drive entirely. Barring that, it should be on a free partition. 45-60GB isn’t too much for a Scratch Disk. If yours in on your primary drive then it’s sharing space/memory with your operating system and any other app that you have running.

That said, sometimes I see this error when it can’t be true. Saving my work (if possible), quitting and rebooting usually fixes the problem. Beyond that a common fix is deleting preferences, but I don’t that’s necessary. You may well be out of scratch disk space.

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KatWoman
May 4, 2006
"iehsmith" wrote in message
On 5/3/06 3:14 AM, tony commented:

I use photoshop CS. Anything is in order until early this week. When I crop photo, it keep displaying a message saying that my scratch disk is full but i have at least free 20GB harddisk space.
Can anyone offer me a hand?

Ideally your Scratch Disk would be on a separate, dedicated hard drive entirely. Barring that, it should be on a free partition. 45-60GB isn’t too
much for a Scratch Disk. If yours in on your primary drive then it’s sharing
space/memory with your operating system and any other app that you have running.

That said, sometimes I see this error when it can’t be true. Saving my work
(if possible), quitting and rebooting usually fixes the problem. Beyond that
a common fix is deleting preferences, but I don’t that’s necessary. You may
well be out of scratch disk space.

inez

on the little triangle at bottom of the frame, use the efficiency settings to see how PS is using your system resources, if it looks low, get another Hard Drive and/or more memory. Can you use fewer layers? Purge clipboard? history? to save a little resources.

Are you working on a larger image than usual? more layers? Did you put in inches instead of px to the crop dialog? I once did and it crashed. I put like 350 inches x 500 inches for the crop size instead of pixels LOL
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tony
May 5, 2006
Thanks alot, problem solved.
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KatWoman
May 5, 2006
"tony" wrote in message
Thanks alot, problem solved.

yes but what was the solution?
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tony
May 8, 2006
Just like you, I put like 1600cm x 900cm for the crop size instead of pixels LOL
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KatWoman
May 8, 2006
"tony" wrote in message
Just like you, I put like 1600cm x 900cm for the crop size instead of pixels LOL

hehe operator error

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