Scratch Disk Problem

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Keith
Aug 25, 2006
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Hello all

Following a few ‘scratch disk full’ errors I installed a 40Gb IDE to use solely as scratch.

I have an action that takes an image, resizes it to 640*480, copies it and resizes the copy to a thumbnail of 200*150 (nothing clever)

When I run this action my scratch disk fills up with a 34Gb photoshop temp file and photoshop stops responding, prompting a reboot every time.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t normal.

Any ideas/pointers to a solution would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Keith
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Mike Russell
Aug 25, 2006
"Keith" wrote in message
Hello all

Following a few ‘scratch disk full’ errors I installed a 40Gb IDE to use solely as scratch.

I have an action that takes an image, resizes it to 640*480, copies it and resizes the copy to a thumbnail of 200*150 (nothing clever)
When I run this action my scratch disk fills up with a 34Gb photoshop temp file and photoshop stops responding, prompting a reboot every time.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t normal.

Any ideas/pointers to a solution would be most appreciated.

I found an article in adobe forums http://shorterlink.com/?AF78R4

These steps may help significantly:

Open up your Preferences dialog. On the General page . Un-check the box next to Export Clipboard. Set the History states to 1. Un-check the box next to History Log. Set your memory slider is to 55 percent.

Also, convert the action to a droplet, and split the job into sections. If all you need is a batch resize, there are other utilities to accomplish this.

You don’t mention your platform, but for Windows there is a "Resize Image" add-on from Microsoft that works under XP.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppow ertoys.mspx

And there is Irfanview: www.irfanview.com .
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friesian
Aug 28, 2006
Keith wrote:
Hello all

Following a few ‘scratch disk full’ errors I installed a 40Gb IDE to use solely as scratch.

I have an action that takes an image, resizes it to 640*480, copies it and resizes the copy to a thumbnail of 200*150 (nothing clever)
When I run this action my scratch disk fills up with a 34Gb photoshop temp file and photoshop stops responding, prompting a reboot every time.

If the computer crashes while Photoshop is open, Photoshop will save the remp file. The windows explorer will say the space is available, but photoshop thinks it is full.

Check your temp files. You may have some lage temp files that need to be deleted manually.
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KatWoman
Aug 29, 2006
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Keith wrote:
Hello all

Following a few ‘scratch disk full’ errors I installed a 40Gb IDE to use solely as scratch.

I have an action that takes an image, resizes it to 640*480, copies it and
resizes the copy to a thumbnail of 200*150 (nothing clever)
When I run this action my scratch disk fills up with a 34Gb photoshop temp
file and photoshop stops responding, prompting a reboot every time.

If the computer crashes while Photoshop is open, Photoshop will save the remp file. The windows explorer will say the space is available, but photoshop thinks it is full.

Check your temp files. You may have some lage temp files that need to be deleted manually.

make sure you have it set to pixels, not inches in the conversion action
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Keith
Oct 3, 2006
Never Mind.

Keith

"Keith" wrote in message
Hello all

Following a few ‘scratch disk full’ errors I installed a 40Gb IDE to use solely as scratch.

I have an action that takes an image, resizes it to 640*480, copies it and resizes the copy to a thumbnail of 200*150 (nothing clever)
When I run this action my scratch disk fills up with a 34Gb photoshop temp file and photoshop stops responding, prompting a reboot every time.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t normal.

Any ideas/pointers to a solution would be most appreciated.
Cheers

Keith

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