why is photoshop saying my scratch disks are full?
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Free up additional disk space 'Scratch disk full' often means that the drive (or drives) used for scratch disks are running low or out of available space. Free up additional hard drive space by deleting unnecessary files from the scratch disk, or by moving your files off the scratch disk to another storage location.
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Method 1: Free up enough disk space The most common cause of the “scratch disk is full” error is the lack of free space in the drive that accommodates the scratch disk. If you don't set it yourself, the C:/ drive is automatically chosen to serve as a scratch disk.
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A scratch disk is a disk drive or SSD used for temporary storage while Photoshop is running. ... When a non-boot drive is used as a scratch disk, the temporary files are placed in the drive's root directory. By default, Photoshop uses the hard drive on which the operating system is installed as the primary scratch disk.
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You can tweak scratch disk settings in the Preferences > Scratch Disks section. Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Mac).
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Failing that you could install XP Mode under Virtual PC and install Photoshop 7 on the virtual machine. That error is an almost 100% guarantee that Photoshop's settings are corrupt. Hold down CTRL+ALT+SHIFT as you click the Photoshop shortcut and it will start with new default settings.
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Update RAM Drivers The fact is that the Photoshop not enough memory error or many others can simply be a consequence of an incorrectly tuned or outdated driver. This problem mainly occurs on Windows platforms, because after the installation of the operating system drivers must be installed manually.
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['Free-Up Memory Space On Your Computer.', 'Delete Photoshop Temporary Files.', 'Change The Scratch Disk On Startup.', 'Change The Scratch Disk Drive In Photoshop.', 'Disable The Auto Recovery Feature In Photoshop.', 'Let Photoshop Use More RAM.', 'Delete The Photoshop Cache Files.', 'Reset The Values For Crop Tool.']
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Most of them are already too large to fit in the 30MB allocated. Mostly that is because the ntuser. dat by itself is like 20 - 175 MB in size. It looks like HP printer stuff is mostly what is filling that.
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So you may need to clean up the AAE files manually (ie delete them). Alternatively since they are so small (~1kb), you could leave them.
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['Unpack the *. tar. ... ', 'Define the XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR and XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH environmental variables (XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR should point to XCrySDen root directory).', 'Create the XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH directory.', 'Launch the program as xcrysden.', 'From time to time clean the $XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH directory.']
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['ไปที่แถบเมนูด้านบน เลือก Edit > Preferences > Performance.', 'ในส่วนของ Scratch Disks ให้เลือกไดรฟ์ที่ต้องการเปลี่ยน แล้วกด OK.', 'ตำแหน่งของ Scratch Disks จะเปลี่ยนเมื่อเปิดโปรแกรมขึ้นมาใหม่อีกครั้ง ดังนั้นให้ทำการรีสตาร์ทโปรแกรมขึ้นมาใหม่']
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If you're unsure which drive is used as a scratch disk, open Photoshop and go to Edit > Preferences >Scratch disks. Once you're into the Preferences menu, confirm which storage drives serve as a scratch disk and make sure it has at least 40 GB of free space.
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Defragment the hard disk. It's possible to get the scratch disk is full error when the scratch disk drive has free space. This is because Photoshop requires contiguous, unfragmented free space on the scratch disk drive.
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If Photoshop 2019, or earlier, cannot launch because the scratch disk is full, hold down the Cmd + Option keys (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt keys (Windows) during launch to set a new scratch disk. You can tweak scratch disk settings in the Preferences > Scratch Disks section.
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Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Mac). In the Preferences dialog, select or deselect the active check box to enable or disable a scratch disk. To change the scratch disk order, click the arrow buttons. Click OK.
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When your computer says that there is not enough disk space, it means that your hard drive is almost full and you are unable to save large files to this drive. To fix the hard drive full issue, you can uninstall some programs, add a new hard drive or replace the drive with a larger one.
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['Click on the Photoshop menu.', 'Go to Preferences and then Scratch Disk.', 'Tick the checkbox to select or remove a drive as the scratch disk.', 'Click OK.', 'Restart Photoshop.']