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Tanvirnwu
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November 14, 2023
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C Drive Space is Shrinking as I run the Photoshop Actions

  • November 14, 2023
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Hello everyone!

 

For some of my work, I need to run Photoshop actions a lot. As I am running actions a lot over many photoshops my C drive is getting full. How could I free up C Drive?

 

Thank you!

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    silk-m
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    silk-mCommunity Expert
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    November 14, 2023

    If you can't choose another scratch disk for now, but want to free up C Drive, add "Edit-Purge-All" to your actions.
    It may be possible to release it.

    --Susumu Iwasaki
      Trevor.Dennis
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      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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      November 14, 2023
      quote

      If you can't choose another scratch disk for now, but want to free up C Drive, add "Edit-Purge-All" to your actions.
      It may be possible to release it.


      By @silk-m

       

      We get a few posts like this and experiment to see what works, and IME Purge All just doesn't release memory.  In fact Photoshop is a bit greedy with RAM nowadays.  It creates more more temp files on the scratch drive, and is a bit of a beggar when it comes to giving it back.  You can close all open files and still have tens of gigabytes tied up with Photoshop temp files.

       

      What you also have to do is keep an eye out for orphaned temp files left behind if Photoshop does not close properly.  With Photoshop closed, any Photoshop temp files left can safely be deleted.

      D Fosse
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      D FosseCommunity Expert
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      November 15, 2023


      this is my c drive now, I must need to clean it up, but do not know how can i do it. 
      I already deleted the temp files, and purge. 

      Is there any manual way like going to a folder in c drive and delete the folder which contains these temp files? 


      A basic configuration of operating system and a normal range of applications including CC, should not take up much more than 100 - 120 GB. Those are the necessary files, anything more than that can be moved or removed.

       

      Here's my system drive - it's bigger than yours, but note that only 116 GB is used:

       

      If you've a) moved everything that can be moved, and b) run disk cleanup - the next step is to use the brilliant little free utility called WinDirStat to find out where all the space has gone. Yes, downloading and installing it will take up a tiny bit more disk space, but it's worth it 😉

       

      The interface looks like this. Click anywhere to get details and expand. It's brilliant:

       

      The outlined area here is my user account. That's where most of the junk tends to accumulate. Also note the big red blobs. One of them is the hibernation file. You can disable hibernation in Windows (Microsoft has a help page for it), and then that big blob goes away.

       

      There's also a big green area in my user account. I can't recall what it was here, but if you've used Bridge for a while on a big archive, it will turn up here and can be tens of GB. The Bridge cache can be moved to another disk. And so on.

       

      Most things in the user account can be safely deleted, it will get rebuilt as necessary. The exception is the files that belong to your Windows user account. You don't want to delete those.

      D Fosse
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      D FosseCommunity Expert
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      November 14, 2023

      As Bojan says. You just don't have enough free disk space for the Photoshop scratch disk.

       

      Raster image editing requires huge amounts of memory, much more than any RAM you may have installed. So temporary working data are written to disk. This is the scratch disk.

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        Tanvirnwu作成者
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        November 14, 2023

        Thank you for the information, can I delete the files from the scratch disk to free up the space?  

        D Fosse
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        D FosseCommunity Expert
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        November 14, 2023

        You need more free space, that's all. Clear out as much as you can.

         

        The scratch disk is temporary data. It's cleared automatically when it's no longer needed.

         

        You can put the scratch disk on another physical drive, but it sounds like you're so low on space that you need to do some housecleaning anyway.

          Bojan Živković11378569
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          Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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          November 14, 2023

          Let me guess, you have set the C drive as a scratch disk from Preferences > Scratch Disks, right? Any disk can be set as a scratch disk, but it is desirable to set an SSD fast disk.

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            Tanvirnwu作成者
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            November 14, 2023

            You are right. 

            can I delete the files from the scratch disk to free up the space? Will that create any issue? 

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