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The Evil That is "Cannot save because disk is full"

  • August 2, 2023
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I'm fairly homocidial at the moment becasue after a few years with this program I still havent figured this one and a few other obscenely annoying issues. 

I worked all {removed by moderator]  day on a commission and went to save. Got a disk full message. Checked and my OS SSD had 65 gb free, but I went ahead and moved 50gb to a different drive and deleted another 100gb of stuff I'd rather have not deleted. 

Then I got the same message. 

Then I looked in the forum and got instructions to click "Edit.Purge.All" 
then the program froze. I three keyed and reopened the program to NO RECOVERY FILE. 

I don't understand and I dont want to understand. I just want to know what [removed by moderator] sertting to switch in preferences so it doesnt happen. It makes zerr=o sense in the first place; [Removed by moderator] . I wouldn't have that sentiment perhaps if I didn't have open cases still that are completely ignored..

Yall know the drill. I worked all day and its gone so I'm extremely pissed. 

If you'll pardon that, then just let me know how to make it so PS will save the files. I don't know what else to say. No I am not a coder so don[t suggest [Removed by moderator] code stuff like in other threads. 

I just want the [removed by moderator] program to save a file I am working on. This has happened sevral times. I have cleared a little space sometimes and it works, other times it seems to be some douchy bug type thing as I have tons of HD space.
 PC
i7 
32gb ram 
nvidia 1070

Doesn't it seem like a program letting you work for hours when it isnt going to let you save is kinda [Removed by moderator] to say the leaset? IS there any particular reason Adobe has to make so much stuff bass ackwards complicated and just plain dumb?

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    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    August 2, 2023

    First, please read the forum guidelines before posting.

     

    I don't understand and I dont want to understand. I just want to know what  sertting to switch in preferences so it doesnt happen.

    No setting, you need to ensure you have enough disk space for the scratch disk - which when working on a large file can grow into 100s of GBs. I do work on some large files and have over 500GB free on the primary scratch drive and more on the secondary scratch.  Make sure the drive to which you will save the document is local and has free space for the saved file (i.e. not network and not removable) and if required copy the file to network or removable drives after saving.

     

    No RECOVERY FILE

    The recovery file is only available after a Photoshop crash and of course needs disk space.

     

    This all boils down to :

    a. Having enough free space. If you are working on large files then that means several 100GB free

    b. Don't rely on recovery files, use regular incremental saves. That way you simply step back to the last incremental save. You can delete all increments but the last when you are finished a job.

     

    Dave

     

     

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