Photoshop is doing TEMP 64gb size all over my HDD

Report · Nov 26, 2020

My animation in photoshop is a Easy and simple drawing is about 2 GB so far, BUT but this is happening to my HDD, first i can open de file cause i didnt havce enough space on my scratch disc and NOW, i need to setup ALL my HDD is order to even OPEN my work.

I try anything so far, read all the forums, i purge everything, i check performance and support only tell me that is normal to have 8gb of scratch disc, BUT THERE IS A HUGE difference between 8gb and 800gb...

PLEASE I NEED HELP!

Report · Nov 26, 2020

I would say 80 to 100GB of free space will be good for Photoshop scratch space. Just starting Photoshop uses 7GB of free space one my machine.

I would think you machine will be running poorly with 3GB of free space on your windows system disk. Windows needs free space for temp files and user application data, Paging etc. If you have a desktop machine and have hibernation enabled. Disable it that should free up some space on C:. You need to move things off of your C: Just starting Photoshop one my machine eats up 7GB of free space.

JJMack

Report · Nov 30, 2020

Yeah, i'm not that newbie, this are my HDDs with out Photoshop running, is INSANE what photoshop is doing to my system, thats why I'm asking for help, cause Adobe Care keep tellking me this is a normal thing.

Report · Nov 30, 2020

when i try to purge the file it only delete 2gb

Report · Nov 26, 2020

Forget Photoshop - you need to rescue your machine from a total freeze-up, which can happen at any minute!

If you have a 500GB system drive and only 4GB left, it clear that there must be tons of things you can move away. Do it now, while you still can! Tomorrow it may not be possible.

Operating system + applications should normally not take up more than 80 - 120 GB.

Never allow any drive to fill up beyond 75% or so, especially not a system drive.

Report · Nov 30, 2020

I understand that, this are my HDDs without Photoshop running. Adobe Care on twitter keep telling me that 30 files of 64gb of Temp, is quite normal... and thats BEYOND insane.

Report · Nov 30, 2020

A 64 GB scratch file is not unusual at all. I would never work with any less than 500 GB available for scratch (in actuality I have more).

A file that is 2GB in saved state on disk is already a large file. It can expand by orders of magnitude when opened. It depends on the layer structure, and especially if you have smart objects.

But the main point is that Photoshop reserves the scratch space it expects to need in short order. Think about it: a couple of history states, and size is already many times what it was.

If you're working with large files in Photoshop, you just have to provide the disk space needed. Again, 64 GB is well within what can be expected. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

Report · Nov 30, 2020

I got +800 gb of temps... you can't just tell me that... what about big movies or work in 4k, or hi res illustration?

This is just a simple frame by framer animation.

It's INSANE.... are you telling me that i need even more TB?

Report · Nov 30, 2020

Ps. when i Purge the file it only delete 2GB

Report · Nov 30, 2020

did you crash Photoshop while making this animation perhaps?

each animation = a new temp file, no Photoshop does not reuse the old files after a crash but makes them again

Adobe moves a copy of all your library files to the C drive but even then you have 300G of space different between the two screengrabs you posted... I can only assume this animation must be doing something wrong like remixing the codex to use up so much harddrive space

p.s, yes massive space is better when making animations just as a basic rule

Report · Nov 30, 2020

Never crash, i got a weird zoom bug (pretty much standar nowdays with photoshop) then, save and close the app and my 800gb of Temps fade away.

Then Open Photoshop and going loco again.

Now i got to uninstall everything but photoshop in order to keep working... But Photoshop is still eating my HDD for aparently no reason and took up to 20 minutes to open the file.

Is really annoying that people just tell me that watch poping up 64 gb files all over the place is normal.. the solution is still to get 100 tb of hard disk drive??

Are you guys playing with my head? Rigth?

Report · Nov 30, 2020

Ps. when i Purge the file it only delete 2gb.

Report · May 01, 2024

Anyway, I was getting the same problem but they didn't give us any solution they are just saying 64 GB is the minimum! Dude, I was working on image 1300 PX / 1300 PX not inches then Why I'm getting 30 GB Temp Files in my Drives? Leonardo is better than Photoshop which didn't take much space and didn't make your PC Slow

Report · May 01, 2024

You have posted in several threads. Here's my reply from another thread:

Without the scratch disk Photoshop wouldn't work.

Raster image editing requires huge amounts of memory, much more than any RAM you may have installed. There is no such thing as enough RAM, no matter how much you have installed.

Everything Photoshop does is always written to the scratch disk, right from the start. The scratch file is Photoshop's main memory. It contains all history states for all open documents (plus some overhead for things like smart objects).

RAM contains current data. It's like a cache for the scratch disk's main memory.

In the past, this was a pretty huge consideration because the scratch disk was slow. So you needed lots of RAM to keep things moving. Today, with ultra-fast generation 4 NVMe drives, the scratch disk is for all practical purposes as fast as RAM and you're not waiting for it. So having lots of RAM isn't critical nowadays.

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