I upgraded to Photoshop 2024 and now my external hard drive is not recognized as a scratch disk.

Hi, I upgraded from Photoshop 2022 to Photoshop 2024 under MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1 and now Photoshop does not recognize my external LaCie 6TB hard drive as a scratch disk. Also, Bridge does not find any files within the external drive so I cannot browse files using Bridge. I can access files within the external drive using the File--> Open... without a problem. Any ideas are appreciated.