How do I set the Location for Photoshop temp files?

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October 20, 2014
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Windows 7, PS 2014...

When using Photoshop, I get files on the system drive that start with Photoshop Temp then a string of numbers. I'd rather not have PS putting these on the SSD. How do I specify where PS will put them? It appears NOT to be the scratch disk since that's set to a different drive. It appears not to be an environment variable since I don't appear to have ANYTHING that points to c:\. I read a number of posts on the Internet that ask this question, but didn't see anything that specified how to move these things.

So, how do I tell PS to dump these where I want?

Chris Cox

Legend

Just specify the scratch volumes in Photoshop's preferences. There aren't going to be many answers repeated online for something that's already in the manual and online help.

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DavePinMinnAuthor

Inspiring

I agree, having read the manual, except........

I have my scratch disk set to the "q:" drive, which is definitely NOT the "c:" drive where the O/S and applications are, and I have photoshop temp files getting put on the scratch disk AND on the C: drive...

Thus, my question. So, if the temp files are still getting put on a disk that is NOT specified as a scratch disk, how DO I change where PS puts ALL the temp files? The ones on the scratch disk are large,

and the ones still getting created on the C: drive are small, but it would be nice if everything went to the scratch disk.

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Nateido1

Participant

Have the same problem. I changed my scratch disk location to not C. Changed my temporary files in Windows in fact from C drive to a seperate drive even, out of desperation. When rendering in After Effects an animated version of my Photoshop layers, it is creating a gigantic file on C regardless - where there is no room for such a temporary file. I've never encountered this issue before rendering things in the same way previously, and I'm stumped out of my mind. Did you end up figuring this out by any chance, Dave, or anyone else? I need ALL temporary files created by After Effects, Photoshop, etc, to not be on my C drive.