scratch disk is full [photoshop]

Placebo

Hey Guys,
Friend has a MAC and everytime she opens a huge file or trys crop a huge image

says scratch disk is full, checked preferences and put up the ram , didnt do anything. she only has one harddisk, thing its 150 gb and about 25gb free?

cpu-dude

Placebo wrote: »

Hey Guys,
Friend has a MAC and everytime she opens a huge file or trys crop a huge image

says scratch disk is full, checked preferences and put up the ram , didnt do anything. she only has one harddisk, thing its 150 gb and about 25gb free?

How huge is the file and how much RAM is there?

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

Make sure there are no excess temporary files, try decreasing the image resolution too.

Placebo

any idea of temp dir on the MAC

cpu-dude

Placebo wrote: »

any idea of temp dir on the MAC

Do a search...

The most common reason for the "Scratch Disk is Full" error message is illustrated by Question 1. Photoshop creates large temporary files on the scratch disk, and then deletes them when it is finished, but if the program does not shut down correctly then these files can be left on the disk.

These temporary files will be named "~PST####.tmp" where "####" represents four numbers. These files will probably be stored in a directory named "Temp" or something similar, and are safe to delete while Photoshop is not running.

If you are unsure whether there are temporary files left on your system, try running a file search by clicking on the Start Menu, and selecting 'Search - For Files or Folders...'. You can then search for files with names containing "~PST".

Deleting these temporary files should free up space on the scratch disk, and stop the error occurring.

aidan_walsh

Moved from Software Design.

Hank_Scorpio

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/f/scratchdisk.htm