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by royal77 says hello friend on January 10th, 2008
You have to allow or allocate space in your hardrive for photoshop to work. If the space that you allocate is to small or fills up (or your hard disk is full), photoshop does not have enough space to store the information that it needs while it is running, and give the error message.
by crazycrusaderz on July 20th, 2009
your scratch disk is full because maximum usage of your ram memory in such cases try to reduce the usage of ram in your system by just deleting the history / do not use maximum time ctrl+z /
please try this option first
edit>preference>performance>
and click and reduce the option > let photoshop use to 20
then try to include all the drives for ram usage
by digital4toes on January 10th, 2008
Photoshop uses empty space on your hard drive as temporary storage when executing commands. This is done to reduce the requirements on RAM memory. As a result, Photoshop runs most effectively when there is lots of free space on your hard drive. If your hard drive is nearly full Photoshop will chug along very slowly (or not at all). If you have an additional hard drive connect it to your computer and list it as a scratch disk in Photoshop's preferences. The more scratch disk space the better.
by wickedcoder on January 10th, 2008
Error "Scratch Disk is full" when you start or edit a file in Photoshop
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=316693&sliceId=1
by Tyrone008 on January 10th, 2008
is it because your scratchdiscs are full??
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thanx. it's 2 gb free even then photoshop is acting up.
by labeeb xaman on January 10th, 2008
For proper operation the hard drive should be 30% free. If your hard drive is 80 gigs than you should have 24 gigs free. Is not that programs won't run, but they start to run slow, and crash more often. Also make sure that there is enough virtual memory allocated. (I assume you are running windows.)
by royal77 says hello friend on January 13th, 2008
One more thought: the path for the scratch disk should be valid. Imagine that the scratch space is on disk D: but there is no disk D: or that the path points to a folder that does not exist.
by royal77 says hello friend on January 13th, 2008
I C. thanx for the nice info :)
by labeeb xaman on January 13th, 2008
i got the same msg.
so how do i fix it?
by ToneDeafLlama on May 11th, 2008
like 'royal' said, u have to have 30% free hard disk space and not just the directory that photoshop is installed on.
by labeeb xaman on May 12th, 2008
yeah, but how do i check how much hard disk space i have?
by ToneDeafLlama on May 12th, 2008
right click on any drive and go to properties. It would show a disk graphic and mention the info
by labeeb xaman on May 15th, 2008
oh okay thanks :)
by ToneDeafLlama on May 28th, 2008
ur welcome.
by labeeb xaman on May 29th, 2008