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timh84951423
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November 13, 2023
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PS 24 taking up huge amounts of temp space.

  • November 13, 2023
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I work with very limited amount of space  on my OS C:/ drive, it only has about 18G free on a very tiny 110G.

 

This is fine so long as i keep atleast 15G+ free, however, whenever i open PS now it uses immedatly about 8G+ of temp room, i have tried to select every conceievable option i can find to direct any adobe action towards my larger SSDs, scratch disks, every preference on cloud, but no matter what i do it always seems to fill up with Adobe crap.

 

What can i do to direct Temp PS files to my other Drives?? or better yet Delete these Temp Files, i dont see why it needs to use 8GB just to create a new file.

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    Kevin Stohlmeyer
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    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 13, 2023

    @timh84951423 a word of caution in addition to the solution from @D Fosse -

    As stated, you can redirect to another drive through Preferences/Scratch Disks however...

    1. Make sure the new larger drive is in the first slot.

    2. With such a small C: drive I would disable that option in Scratch Disks altogether (its a boat anchor).

    3. New drive has to be fast connection/SSD - if a slow external connection or older spin platter drive it will not help with speed.

     

    Your best solution is to rebuild your computer with a larger internal drive. Disk storage SSD drives are cheap.

      D Fosse
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      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 13, 2023

      This is normal. Advanced raster image editing requires huge amounts of memory, much more than any RAM you may have installed.

       

      So Photoshop writes temporary working data to disk, aka the scratch disk. The scratch file contains all history states for all open documents, so it's much bigger than nominal starting file sizes. Expected scratch space is allocated on startup.

       

      You can direct the Photoshop scratch disk anywhere you want in Preferences > Scratch disks.

       

      All that said, I would strongly advise you to clear out space on your system drive. 18 GB is nothing, and you can quickly get into bigger problems than Photoshop.

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