Crazy Scratch Disk ;o/

MF
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Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
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Hiya guys 🙁

I keep running into a Full Scratch Disk, Ive emptied
everything I can think of. It runs ok for a little while then its full again.

But now, I don’t have anything to empty out, where
the heck is this scratch disk thing???
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BB
Barbara_Brundage
May 14, 2005
How full is your hard drive? That’s where your scratch disk is if you haven’t set a different one.
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
I have almost half a HD empty, is there somewhere
that I set it to a certain place? I figured it
was using my HD, but it must not be 🙁
BB
Barbara_Brundage
May 14, 2005
When you say, half empty–how big is it?

Check in Editor/Edit/Preferences/Plug-ins and scratch disk. Have you changed the memory allocation? That could cause this.

Also, have you defragged recently? If not, give that a try.
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
Ohhh wow, I havent defragged for a while 🙁
I’ll get on that to night.

I have 4GBs HD left.

I have 4 places in the memory allocation box, should
all of them be pointing to the C drive?

Barb, thanks so much for your help 🙂
BB
Barbara_Brundage
May 14, 2005
Yes, don’t change anything in the boxes unless you have another drive that’s as fast as your main drive.

4GB is not very much these days, but defragging should help some.
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
The first box is pointing to Startup, what ever that is. and the other 3 boxes are not pointing to anything
BB
Barbara_Brundage
May 14, 2005
Yes, that’s how it should be. Just defrag and it should work okay.
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
Ok will do 🙂

But a little confused, should they point
to Startup or C drive… C drive is there to
BB
Barbara_Brundage
May 14, 2005
Startup, assuming you only have one internal drive.
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
ok, thanks again Barb, I’ll get right on
that defragging 🙂
R
Roy
May 14, 2005
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Hiya guys 🙁

I keep running into a Full Scratch Disk, Ive emptied
everything I can think of. It runs ok for a little while then its full again.

But now, I don’t have anything to empty out, where
the heck is this scratch disk thing???

Hi there.

4 Gb spare space on your HDD is not really enough.

Can you clear it our some, by burning older Photo Files onto CD, or get an extra HDD to be your main Scratch Disc. They are pretty cheap at the moment.

Roy G
JJ
Jim_J
May 14, 2005
MF,

If this is something you find that you never do… you could also consider scheduling the defragger to go when you’re not running the PC or pick up something like Diskeeper that will run in the background either constantly without really interfering. I got lazy and purchased the latest version and love it.

Cheers
MF
Mystic_Fawn
May 14, 2005
Thanks Jim,

I’ll check out Diskeeper, sounds like
a cool thing to have.

and aahhh… dont worry about the MF slip LOL
Im gettin used to it LOL
JJ
Jim_J
May 15, 2005
Well… I’m sure I’ve made worse mistakes… I just don’t care to admit my "blonde moments" and yes that is the colour of my hair (so I can say that). 🙂

That said… give the proximity of the "r" to the "f"… at least no one has made THAT mistake… Can you say "censure"? 🙂

Cheers

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