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Photoshop do not start, scratch disk problem

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 4, 2020
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After latest update Photoshop do not start.

What i tried: install previous version, unninstal all, delete all from app data/roaming/, then reinstal fresh one. No effect. Messages:

When i click OK... it's gone.

No active process in task manager, nothing.

HELP! I need to work!

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D Fosse

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Your disks are full. That's all there is to it. You need to free up a lot of space in a hurry, or you will soon have bigger problems than Photoshop. 1 GB free on the system drive is an emergency situation that you need to deal with immediately.

"Scratch disk" is not a Photoshop setting. It's real physical disk space, and you have nothing left.

I see you have an F drive with 100GB or so. That shoud be enough to let Photoshop work for a while, but that's a moot point when your whole machine can freeze up at any minute now.

A

Anonymous

"I see you have an F drive with 100GB or so"

That's MB not GB, unless my eyes are deceiving me

D Fosse

Community Expert

Oops, yes indeed...it's a miracle that machine still runs.

A

Anonymous

And here lies your problem

You really need to free up space on your system drives, you're going to run into issues on an operating system level never mind Photoshop

milekpiatekAuthor

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Before update it worked like a charm, how much space i need now? Here's 12 GB free space in total, isn't it enough just to RUN a program?

davescm

Community Expert

Here Photoshop takes over 5GB scratch space before I open a single file. while working, the scratch disk file can commonly grow to 100GB. So no, you do not have enough space on your disks

Dave

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