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Photoshop thinks my external scratch disk is same size as my local drive

Community Beginner ,
Mar 18, 2021 Mar 18, 2021

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I haven't found anyone else online experiencing this particular issue with scratch disks. Hope someone can help.

 

I have approx 300gb free space on my external drive, and am using it as a scratch disk. Now Photoshop tells me the scratch disk is full, and when I see the list of disks available, it shows *exactly* the same free space on the external drive, as my local drive (also on another partition).

 

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I have tried,

Rebooting the mac and Photoshop,

Reinstalling Photoshop both with saving my settings, and a complete clean reinstall all settings deleted,

Running first aid on the drive,

Restarting the drive,

 

Nothing helps.

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Mar 18, 2021 Mar 18, 2021

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It looks like Photoshop is having issues with your Mac system. I find it hard to believe all you disk have exactly the same amount of free space. Make sure you have address all the Mac related issues with Photoshop.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 09, 2021 Apr 09, 2021

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Can you explain youself clearer? This answer gives me no clue as to what you are suggesting.

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New Here ,
Jan 06, 2022 Jan 06, 2022

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I also am having the same issue - did you ever find a solution?

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 10, 2022 Jan 10, 2022

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I never did. I moved to iCloud drive, so I could have everything "locally"

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Community Expert ,
Jan 06, 2022 Jan 06, 2022

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Make sure the other disks are correctly formatted (APFS or HFS+) - not exFAT which doesn't work well in later MacOS versions.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 10, 2022 Jan 10, 2022

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Hello, also ensure that you give permissions to Photoshop to access the other drives.

By settings, do you mean the preferences? 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2023 Jul 18, 2023

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I have the same issue. My external Drive has 500 GB! yet I still get Scratch disk Full Error and when I check it shows the same amount of space in both internal memory and external drive. I have updated OS, deleted PS, reinstalled. Still the same for a year now..

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New Here ,
May 01, 2024 May 01, 2024

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  1. having this same problem for over a year now, has anyone found a solution?

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Community Beginner ,
May 01, 2024 May 01, 2024

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Still the same for me , 1-2 years like this. I'm just looking forward to the moment I'll have a new laptop and I will use a brand new SSD card. THAT is my only hope, I tried everything.

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Explorer ,
Aug 27, 2024 Aug 27, 2024

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Did you ever find a solution? This happened to me out of nowhere after never having this problem and it has to be the most frustrating issue ive had with adobe. 

 

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Community Expert ,
Aug 27, 2024 Aug 27, 2024

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Is it a different device?
Perhaps it's a different volume on the same device (Container).

 

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Different volumes of the same container share free space and will be the same size.

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Susumu Iwasaki

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Explorer ,
Aug 27, 2024 Aug 27, 2024

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 This bug with Adobe happened infront of my eyes out of nowhere for 1st time after using photoshop daily for 5 years. I always use Lacie External Drives with over 4-5TB of free space checked on my scratch disk settings (as shown on drive settings in photo) Was using photoshop with no issues, computer died, turned it back on, when to make sure my external drive was checked per usual, now this new irritating bug shows the external drive with the only space available as my internal drive 

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Community Expert ,
Aug 28, 2024 Aug 28, 2024

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quote

computer died, turned it back on


By @Krew Visuals

 

Any irregular shutdown carries the risk of corrupting preferences. So a full reset is the first thing to do. Preferences are rewritten on every application exit.

 

We have seen this reported from time to time, always on Mac and always involving external drives. That, to me, indicates that some part of the operating system is involved. I don't know how/why and I've never seen any solution.

 

If this was me, I'd do whatever it takes to avoid relying on external drives for scratch. That's clearly potentially problematic in more ways than one. It's slow, it's unreliable and it's prone to errors. External drives are for permanent archival storage, not working system data.

 

As I wrote in another of your threads, your system drive doesn't have to contain more than 100GB-ish of OS and applications. Everything else can be moved to other storage or deleted. Unless you have a 120 GB system drive, that means it can always be used as primary scratch.

 

Few people realize how much useless junk tends to accumulate in the machine user account. This junk is deposited there by all your applications, and much of it remains after uninstall or upgrades. Start with disk cleanup in the operating system. Then there are free utilities that show you precisely what fills up your drives and where it is.

 

You've posted a lot of complaints, both specific and unspecific. So I just want to repeat that if you give Photoshop good hardware and a clean operating system, it works flawlessly and reliably. There is nothing inherent in Photoshop that causes these problems.

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Aug 28, 2024 Aug 28, 2024

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Ive tried everything you suggested, even a brand new external drive out of the package, along with others but still get the same bug, showing only the space available on internal drive.

 

Adobe remote supprt tried anything and everything for 2.5 hour session and a half hour session the following day with no solution. Hard resets, cleaning/renaming files etc. Crazy there seems to be no solution to this bug. Not sure how it can be the hardwear either when everything on this end is practially new with no issues ever. Oh well

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