Scratch Disks

[Garry Russell]

Hi guys

I'm trying to open a series od PSD's in Photoshop but after 2 I'm getteing an error saying could not complete you request because the sctach disks are full

Never seen this before

Restarting and turning off leaving a while and the starting up has not changed anything

Any ideas?

Garry

[Effoh]

Mr R,

http://www.easyelements.com/scratch-disk-is-full.html

Rgds,

Colin

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Colin

I deleted some temp files and did the trick

TBH I didn't think of it as a Photoshop problem and was checking disks

Garry

[DaveB]

Yo Garry..

Have a look on your system and find a really empty drive then allocate this (from within Photoshop) as your scratch disc. In Elements, it's under EDIT\Preferences\Plug-Ins & Scratch Discs

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Hi mate

Good idea but I only have the one drive

Or am I being a dunce?

Garry

[DaveB]

Ah.. ok mate. I presumed you'd got the 'ex' striped drives in too When you do get that far.. at least you know what to do I have seen the same warning but not for a long time. I found working with text (manipulating).. especially large text on what might be an already large background gives system resources a right pasting and the facility to nominate a scratch disc is a godsend (it uses that area for 'Open' files)

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

HI Mate

Yep I have three working HD's.....on the PC .....ITB and 2x80GB

But .....this is the laptop the only machine I can spend more than a few minuets on

I haven;t had this problem before and had all the ones I wanted open before the machin went on auto standby and wouldn't wake up without a restart

Garry

[DaveB]

Ah bugger.. I'll get there in the end Didn't think about the laptop

I guess that with only one drive, you're up S creek without a paddle and the only thing you can do is so what you did.. make more room Anyway, on a default install.. it doesn't allocate scratch discs, this you have to do yourself which is fine if you have a humongous install drive.. less so if you don't

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

I think it was just a one off screw up.

It opened far more than this before and is opening them fine now.

Before it would only open two

I have 6 PSD open for the CL-44 between 50MB and 400MB.I have had all 14 psd of that project plus maybe 50 reference Jpeg open at once without any probs

Basically I have always opened as many as I want up to the max of 100 without a hint of protest which is why I thought just two was a bit unusual.

Garry

[DaveB]

Yup.. it could be that something has stayed put for whatever reason cutting your virtual and actual memory down hence the warning. From what you've said, it sounds like a 'one off'

ATB

DaveB