Matt Churchill

I use Adobe Photo Deluxe to format my pictures for putting on the web. Went to do one today, and it said that my "scratch disk" was full. Seems that this is related to the RAM and is what it uses to print photos?

Looked in the "preferences" in Adobe and it shows that of my 233mb RAM 75% is alloctaed to Adobe and that I obviuosly haven't enough space to call up a 3mea-pixel image which is stored on the hard drive, so that I can prepare it for the web.

Have run disk defrag program, but to no avail.

Anyone know how I can get rid of some of the stuff in the RAM, as I don't want to start using up the hard drive as the secondary place I use the scratch disk (and start filling this up).

If it makes any difference it is on Windows XP.

Cheers

Matt

Neil Smalley

The scratch disk relates to temporary storage space photoshop uses on disk.

Check in the plug ins and scratch disks preferences and either clear up some disk space on the disk it mentions, or if you have another free-er partition add the drive letter in the second box.

Hope this helps.

Matt Churchill

Cheers Neil, sort of helpful!

It won't even let me into the Adobe program now. It come up with a box saying Scratch disk nearly full. It is quoting the "primary" disk as "startup" and there is no secondary mentioned. If I click on the box, it will allow me to select my hard drive "C:". If I select this, won't it fill up the hard drive over time, or can I defrag the hard drive to get rid of the stuff?

As you can probably tell, I don't know much about computers!!

Thanks for the help

Matt

father_jack

As said before - your hard drive is full. Delete some of that **** or stuff in C:\temp or search for *.tmp and delete them

DominicA

defrag just gives you contigueous free disk space (ie all in one place) to get more space, you must delete stuff...

Dom

Matt Churchill

Cheers guys, I'll have a go tonight.

When I did the defrag over the weekend, it said that my C drive was 75% empty though - told you I don't get computers.

Another slightly related question, would something like Norton Systemworks do this automatically - I used to have it before I upgraded to XP, and I haven't got around to updating the verion of Systemworks yet.

Cheers again

Matt

Matt Churchill

Just spoken to my wife and she has done it, thanks a lot guys for all of the help.

Matt

father_jack

Sorted at last - well done.

FYI - Photoshop needs 3 times the size of the file to work so if you open a 100Mb file it will want 300Mb or more free. It writes a temp file the size of the file plus 1 copy in memory plus 1 copy for undo.....