B-B

Hi

I am after some advice please:

My daughter is running a mac laptop. She uses Photoshop A LOT!! (she works in animation) She has now got a message saying the scratch disks are full. She says she has tried reassigning them - I think she meant to the hard disk of the laptop but it has had no change.

She wonders if the hard drive needs defragging and if anyone can advise whether firstly they agree and secondly if they do is there a program she can use to do this?

Your comments would be greatfully received. Many thanks

Sara

mattbeef

What version of Photoshop and OS X is she running?
Aslong as its 10 and not 9 then the HFS file system is self defagging so no need to do it

B-B

From memory it was 10 but I will check back with her. And photoshop CS 2

If its not that then how does she sort this scratch disc full problem? Any thoughts please?

Thanks
Sara

Ian Cook

hopefully this will help Photoshop Scratch Disk - What to do About the Scratch Disk is Full Error Message

AllanB

Check how much RAM she has installed, physical RAM not virtual.

Also suggest you go to applications, utilities and activity monitor this will tell you if she maxing out the RAM.

If so you'll likely be hammering the hard disk and using up the space quickly. OSX is meant to be self defragging but I've found you can get some good results using idefragger to free up a great deal of space.


AllanB

B-B

Thank you Ian and AllanB. I have passed the comments and link on to her and will let her try the recommendations. It is very frustrating for her - and holding up her work.

Sara