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12-28-2007, 10:26 AM
This is not a cry for help, nope. This is a cry to help (WTF?).
There have been many threads about having errors messages whilst trying to start up Photoshop. I, for once, have done research for your sake.
What is the scratch disk?
The scratch disk is your hard drive. Photoshop uses your hard drive as a temporary virtual memory if your system does not have enough RAM to do an operation.
So how do fix this? (What the poppers is your point?)
You can change the scratch disk location and add other scratch disks from your PS preferences. You can improve performance by setting the scratch disk to your fastest hard drive (mine is the C drive on my Windows XP).
When PS shuts down improperly and/or crashes in the middle of your graphic making session, this may create a large amount of temporary files on your scratch disk.
Photoshop's temp files are typically named ~PST####.tmp on Windows and Temp#### on Macintosh, where #### is a series of numbers. These are safe to delete.
If you're getting an error message that the scratch disk is full, it means you need to clear some space on the drive that is defined as the scratch disk in Photoshop Preferences, or add more drives for Photoshop to use as scratch space.
Simple English, please?
Solution A
Clear your temporary files. They are proven safe to delete. The are contained in the C://Program Files/Adobe … (something like that) in Windows. Just find the file names (see paragraph 5).
Solution B
Use a disk defragmentation utility. Or DEFRAGMENT AND CLEANUP YOUR DRIVE in very simple English.
Other useful sources:
Adobe.com: “Error Scratch Disk is full” (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=316693)
This helpful article has been written for your sake. My sources are in the link above.
UNAUTHORISED COPYING, PRINTING OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS ARTICLE WITHOUT PERMISSION WILL BE REGARDED AS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
There have been many threads about having errors messages whilst trying to start up Photoshop. I, for once, have done research for your sake.
What is the scratch disk?
The scratch disk is your hard drive. Photoshop uses your hard drive as a temporary virtual memory if your system does not have enough RAM to do an operation.
So how do fix this? (What the poppers is your point?)
You can change the scratch disk location and add other scratch disks from your PS preferences. You can improve performance by setting the scratch disk to your fastest hard drive (mine is the C drive on my Windows XP).
When PS shuts down improperly and/or crashes in the middle of your graphic making session, this may create a large amount of temporary files on your scratch disk.
Photoshop's temp files are typically named ~PST####.tmp on Windows and Temp#### on Macintosh, where #### is a series of numbers. These are safe to delete.
If you're getting an error message that the scratch disk is full, it means you need to clear some space on the drive that is defined as the scratch disk in Photoshop Preferences, or add more drives for Photoshop to use as scratch space.
Simple English, please?
Solution A
Clear your temporary files. They are proven safe to delete. The are contained in the C://Program Files/Adobe … (something like that) in Windows. Just find the file names (see paragraph 5).
Solution B
Use a disk defragmentation utility. Or DEFRAGMENT AND CLEANUP YOUR DRIVE in very simple English.
Other useful sources:
Adobe.com: “Error Scratch Disk is full” (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=316693)
This helpful article has been written for your sake. My sources are in the link above.
UNAUTHORISED COPYING, PRINTING OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS ARTICLE WITHOUT PERMISSION WILL BE REGARDED AS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT