'Available Space' drastically change when I open PS

Question

Hi, my snag is when I try to do anything simple little thing in Photoshop I get the error that my 'Scratch discs are full'.
It looked like I had about 24 GB of free space on a 500 GB drive so I spent a couple of happy hours moving big files to an external drive and had about 88 GB of free space but it didn't make any difference to the performance of Photoshop.
I tried adding an external drive an an additional scratch disc to no effect.

To day I downloaded a few videos, prob. not more than 2 GB and now when I check 'get info' for HD Macintosh it shows I have only 6.2 GB of available space.

Actually right after moving all those files I got a similar result but when I closed the 'get info' window and opened it again it showed 88 GB again. But today back to 6.2 GB
Photoshop still not able to play even though I have added another scratch disc with over 300 GB of spare space.

I ran 'repair disc' using First Aid from the recovery drive but it did not find any problem to repair and said the drive appears to be fine.

Incase it helps a few days ago it was hard to wake my Mac from sleep.

I had to hold the power button for over 5 secs about 6 times before it would wake.

Restarting fixed that but maybe there is some problem somewhere with use for the space.

Oh Wow while I was writing this the available space just went back to 81.28 GB when I closed Photoshop.

I was only trying to add text to a small image, couldn't possible take up so many GBs of space.

I just opened Photoshop again and the available space went down to 5.37 GB and it fluctuates a bit even though I don't do anything except type here.

Closed PS again and available space is up to 80.72 GB.
I have no problem editing a video in Screenflow with PS closed...

I have Mac Mini running 10. 13.6
500 GB drive. 2.5 GHz processor.

Any idea what is going on?
How to fix it so i can use PS?
I have the photographers CC plan and am up to date with Creative Cloud and PS.

plmk? Thanks.

Jeff Arola · Accepted Answer

Hi Michelle, thanks for the tips.I took the Ram allocation down to 50% & I do still have an added scratch disc with over 400 GBs space on it.I created that 1200 x 1200 image again and clicked the text too,I got the text layer but as soon as I clicked an insert point on the main window I got a spinning ball for a while then nothing.If I click the bg. layer I see the Text layer is named with the text I type but it doesnt' show in my main doc window still and the available space went down to 6.78 GB as soon as I clicked the text insert point.It looks like my Graphics processor is already turned off.I think that's what that error about it must have meant.I don't see a way to turn it back on... any tips on that?plmk?Thanks!I believe the cause of the ram issue is that the size of the document in the New dialog is set for 1200 inches x 1200 inches, when you probably meant to enter 1200 px x 1200 px.

tridosha · Answer

Hello? Anyone there? Pls help Thanks!

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