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BigDonkey2 · 10-06-2004, 09:21 PM

I got a quick question. I have a 120GB hdd partitioned into 2 sections; a 10GB boot section and a 100GB storage section. Right now I have about 460MB of free space on the 10GB partition. When I open a photoshop file the little box pops up saying that I'm running low on disk space for my C: drive (the 10GB) and the file was opened on the 100GB storage drive. Now my question is this: What the hell is going on? Last week I had like over 1GB of free space and now its down to 460MB. I haven't d/l anything new that takes up a big amount of space. I just want to know why it takes up all the space on my hard drive. Oh, and when I run Disk Cleanup it stalls, not the computer but it won't get to the point where I can delete old files. It'll just sit there and say its trying to find old files. I've let it run for a few hours and got the same thing. What gives? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

edit: Another quick Photoshop question, what does it mean when it says it can't open a file because the scratch disks are full?

Key · 10-06-2004, 10:29 PM

easiest way to explain this... if photoshop is a poster or project you're working on, your scratch disk would be the table you're working off of. think of it as the same way RAM operates.

you need massive amounts of scratch disk space in order to process everything. if you're rendering something it needs space to "compile" and work things out, store temporary files and information.

you can go to the options menu and select the scratch disk and max size of it, i always gave quite a bit of space to photoshop to use, so allocate as much as you think you'll need dependent on your usage. sounds like you should put the scratch disk on the 100gb partition.

heyal256 · 10-07-2004, 08:05 PM

You didn't mention if this is the case or not, but is your swap file on the c: drive? If it is it would cause the issues your having of running out of (virtual) memory.
Since you don't mention your operatiing system, it's hard to say much more, also I don't know if the filesystem could be an issue (ntfs/fat32/other).

tropple · 10-08-2004, 03:38 AM

What Key said.

zero2 · 10-10-2004, 10:48 AM

Photoshop consumes a massive amount of memory, once it uses your Ram, it then goes to your swap file or virtual memory which is your HDD. To avoid this conflict you should free up more space, one place to start under the start menu--> all programs-->system tools-->disk cleanup.

10-06-2004, 09:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
BigDonkey2 Insane Location: California	Running out of space? I got a quick question. I have a 120GB hdd partitioned into 2 sections; a 10GB boot section and a 100GB storage section. Right now I have about 460MB of free space on the 10GB partition. When I open a photoshop file the little box pops up saying that I'm running low on disk space for my C: drive (the 10GB) and the file was opened on the 100GB storage drive. Now my question is this: What the hell is going on? Last week I had like over 1GB of free space and now its down to 460MB. I haven't d/l anything new that takes up a big amount of space. I just want to know why it takes up all the space on my hard drive. Oh, and when I run Disk Cleanup it stalls, not the computer but it won't get to the point where I can delete old files. It'll just sit there and say its trying to find old files. I've let it run for a few hours and got the same thing. What gives? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. edit: Another quick Photoshop question, what does it mean when it says it can't open a file because the scratch disks are full? Last edited by BigDonkey2; 10-06-2004 at 09:24 PM..

10-08-2004, 03:38 AM	#4 (permalink)
tropple Junkie	What Key said. __________________ +++++++++++Boom!

10-06-2004, 10:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
Key Crazy	easiest way to explain this... if photoshop is a poster or project you're working on, your scratch disk would be the table you're working off of. think of it as the same way RAM operates. you need massive amounts of scratch disk space in order to process everything. if you're rendering something it needs space to "compile" and work things out, store temporary files and information. you can go to the options menu and select the scratch disk and max size of it, i always gave quite a bit of space to photoshop to use, so allocate as much as you think you'll need dependent on your usage. sounds like you should put the scratch disk on the 100gb partition.

10-07-2004, 08:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
heyal256 Not so great lurker Location: NY	You didn't mention if this is the case or not, but is your swap file on the c: drive? If it is it would cause the issues your having of running out of (virtual) memory. Since you don't mention your operatiing system, it's hard to say much more, also I don't know if the filesystem could be an issue (ntfs/fat32/other).

10-10-2004, 10:48 AM	#5 (permalink)
zero2 Junkie	Photoshop consumes a massive amount of memory, once it uses your Ram, it then goes to your swap file or virtual memory which is your HDD. To avoid this conflict you should free up more space, one place to start under the start menu--> all programs-->system tools-->disk cleanup.