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Scratch Disk DESPERATE HELP!!!

Postby Willster328 on Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:16 pm

If anybody knows anything, or can research anything I can't find, I would appreciate it. As of a few days ago my computer got a lil virus, I had to system restore. Virus gone, BUT, seems as though my Photoshop kind of reset itself. Becuase when I opened it, the template was different (I used to have only 2 windows on the right, it reset itself to open with 4 windows) and when I used to create a new file the background was the transparent checkered pattern, and now it's just a plan white background, so something obviously reset.

THat's cool, no problem there. So I go to create a new photo, and I use a VERY simple too, I use the Paint Bucket to fill a 500x500 image, Photoshop has a lilttle load bar come up so it can LOAD to fill my little space, and if i let it sit, it will eventually say "Scratch Disk is Full".

Now, I've gone online to see how to fix that. I've found multiple FAQ sites. And this is what I've done to still no avail:

1. I've gone into Preferences and set the Scratch Disk location to my C:// drive that it previously was.

2. Set it so that 100% of my RAM can be used for Photoshop

3. Defragmented my C:// Drive

4. Searched for any ~PSD temp files, my computer said it found none.


And now I have NO idea what to do, and it's very very frusterating. If anybody knows anything else I could try, or knows a great FAQ website, or another Photoshop Forum I could go to, I'd be eternally in you dept.
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Re: Scratch Disk DESPERATE HELP!!!

Postby dflynn on Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:51 pm

First, you shouldn't set the RAM usage to 100%. Not saying that caused it by any means but if you were to solve the error, setting it high could just cause problems on it's own.
Anyway, I haven't been able to find anything new that you said you already tried, but you said:
4. Searched for any ~PSD temp files, my computer said it found none.

Did you search ~PSD, or ~PST? a temporary photoshop file from my understanding is the latter ~PST. Maybe you searched the wrong item or may you just mistyped that in your post but it's something to consider.

If nothing else, have you tried reinstalling photoshop? It may be your best bet.
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Re: Scratch Disk DESPERATE HELP!!!

Postby Etheryte on Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:13 pm

I'd say that your Photoshop preference files might have become corrupt. You can trash them and fully reset the preferences by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Shift while starting up PS.
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