![]() ![]() If you can't/won't get a dedicated drive that you keep empty for use as the scratch disk, back up and remove files from the disk or partition you are using as a Scratch disk regularly.Ĥ. Drives can also be had for not much money (try )ģ. If you have a mini you obviously need an external hard drive as your dedicated scratch disk. If you only have one Hard Drive for everything, including PShop scratch disk, add another Hard Drive and keep it empty for use solely as the scratch disk or buy one big enough that a decent chunk of it can be partitioned and used as the scratch disk but not for storage. It's relatively cheap now (don't buy Apple memory-it's way overpriced).Ģ. Your options are any or all of the following:ġ. If you only have one Hard Drive and it is getting full, your PShop scratch disk is getting smaller. So, since the scratch disk in PShop is simply a hard disk or disk partition you designate as the scratch disk, the way to clean the scratch disk is to remove any unecessary files from the hard drive or partition you've chosen to be the scratch disk-(as in back up files elsewhere, then throw them in the trash and empty your trash). This file is deleted automatically upon quitting PShop (unless you happen to crash while in PShop, in which case you might see one or more files called 'recovered file' in the trash-empty your trash). If you shut your computer down on a regular basis for the night, it doesn't get defragged.Īs mentioned by another poster, PShop writes a temporary file to the hard drive or partition you've designated as the scratch disk. The default is to do this at around 2:00 am. The more you have on the drive designated as your scratch disk, the less you have available of it to be used as virtual memory (scratch disk).Īs I understand it, the Mac OS has a built in optimizer that basically defrags your hard drive automatically. If you have items in your trash that you haven't emptied, that also is disk space not available for your scratch disk. That means that whatever is left over on your hard drive that is not used to store the system itself, application files, and work files is what is available for your scratch disk. If you have one hard drive, than that hard drive is your scratch disk. If you meant 1 gig of disk storage, that also is not enough. That means after your system takes it's share of memory, there is not much left for Photoshop so just about everything you do is done with the scratch disk. You will have to go online to find instructions on how to do it (involves putty knives, not for the squeamish). You can ad memory to it, but to do so might void your warranty. I think the only machine that you can have one gig of memory with is the mini which also shares memory with it's GPU. If I remember correctly you said you have one gig of memory? That isn't enough to do much other than web browsing, email, text files, etc. If anyone else can help me out that'd be great. Luckily it's still under Apple Care so we'll see how well I'm taken I'm going to have a date with the Genius Bar and have them fix it. I've asked several employees at the Mac storeĪbout this and most of them have no idea what I'm talking about and I can't crop pictures anymoreīecause of this error. Old and has 1 gig of memory? I even uninstalled and reinstalled So why on my Mac that's just a little over a year NOBODY knows how to clean a scratch disk. Scratch disk (thank you for trying to help). ![]() I've done everything the last two guys have mentioned to clean up my ![]() Have you run disk utility to see if you can repair the HD as well? Either that or your hard drive has a problem and your scratch disk is trying to access bad blocks/sectors. It sounds like a preference file is screwed up. ![]()
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