I can't use my photoshop properly because my scratch disk is full.How do i get off this problem?

Question

i tried adding additional drives for Photoshop to use as scratch space.i don't think i have done it properly.help this is urgent.

Answer 1

If you have more that one drive (Physical or Partitioned) on your PC it should not be that hard. Set your first scratch disk to the same one Photoshop is installed on (C:/ for instance) and the second, and probably third to other available drives. Just make sure that you do have space available on those drives.

It is just good for the performance of Photoshop (in my own humble opinion) to set the first scratch disk to the same as photoshop, and most likely your system.

Hope this helped.

PS Remember you have to restart photoshop (and preferably reboot your PC) before this new setting will take effect. The actual space taken up by photoshop in this "virtual memory" will be available for normal computing again as soon as you quit Photoshop, and will not eventually take over your PC.

Answer 2

should delete some stuff then....

Answer 3

The scratch drive is a space it uses for temporary storage, for the things you have on layers and so on. Once you are finished with a session it no longer needs these, but it keeps them anyway.

So what you need to do it, find out from the Photoshop options, where the current scratch file is located. Then go to there from My Computer, and delete the whole file. Then Photoshop will start reusing that space. Don't keep adding extra space for it, or it will end up taking over your whole machine, with stuff nobody can ever again get access to.