Scratch Disk

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January 18, 2021
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I cannot get onto my Photo Shop, I kept getting an error Scratch Disk full. I emptied my Temp folder, but still can't get on. I then deleted Photo Shop and reinstalled it,but I'm getting the same error. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

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Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Its recommended to use a drive separate from the actual HD you are running the software on. An external drive could be used as scratch disk. Be sure to change your Photoshop Preference/Scratch Disk and restart PS to enact the changes.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/scratch-disks-preferences.html

D Fosse

Community Expert

How much free disk space do you have on your system? How many GB? For Photoshop to operate efficiently, you need anywhere between, say, 50GB and 500GB - depending on the size of your files and how many you have open.

Pixel-based image editing requires huge amounts of memory, much more than any RAM you may have installed. So temporary working data are written to disk. That's the scratch disk.

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