scratch disc

Something new to me...what is this scratch disc space PhotoShop tells me I don't have enough of and what to do?

thanks, Craig

 

Photoshop has default or configurable settings for the amount of ram it reserves for it's operations. When this amount of allocated ram memory is exceeded it uses a temp file called "scratch disc" ran from the harddrive, unless user has set preferences to designate another.

The amount or sizes allocated for this is set via your options. You can either get more ram, do less memory intensive operations/editing trying to keep files as small as possible and options as basic as is feasible [limit the amount of undo history for example], clean up hardrive if your short on the free space that may be cramping photshops memory or you could change the alocation of disc space for photoshops scratch disc. Increase the amount of space alocated to photoshop for scratchdisc.

It sounds like you could benefit from finding a good forum or communitiy that offers "Tweaks and Tips" for Photoshop. This can be a memory hog and needs the configuration/optimization these tweaks and tips can offer.

NOTE* There may also be known reasons why you may be getting this error but I am unaware of any off the top of my head, so I tried to keep the thread focused on answering your original question about "a scratch disc and what it was ".