Photoshop Scratch disk full error

Photoshop Scratch disk full error

Adobe Photoshop Scratch Disk

When you are working with Adobe Photoshop in any version, the application will create a temporary file for your working history which is the so called Scratch. Scratch disk is the physical disk space where the temporary file or the scratch file was saved on your hard disk drive. Usually the scratch file is saved in your temporary files folder. Creating this scratch file enables you to undo your previous action in the current Photoshop project.

Thumbnails in your Layer properties also allocate space in your scratch disk. Large thumbnails will allocate larger space than the small thumbnails. To save space on your scratch disk, you may change the way how thumbnails are displayed in your layer properties. Instead of setting it to Large Thumbnails change it to Small thumbnails or you may remove the thumbnails by setting it to No Thumbnails. Here’s how to change your thumbnail settings:

1. If your Layers window is not visible on the sidebar window, Click Window on the Menu Bar then select Layer or just press F7 on your keyboard.
2. On your layer window, select one by one all the layers open then right click on the thumbnail icon then select No Thumbnail on the pop-up menu. Not: you may select all layers by holding the control key then click on the layers. Clicking twice will make the layer un-selected.

You may also limit you Adobe Photoshop history cache to save more space in your Scratch Disk. But we have the cons of limiting the history cache; you can only get back to your history for a limited count of history. By default your history is set to 20. Here’s how to change your History limit.

1. Click Edit to move your mouse pointer to Preferences, the Preferences sub menu will then automatically show then select General. Or just press CTR+K in your Adobe Photoshop Desktop. Preferences Dialog box appears
2. On the list box on the left side of the dialog box, select Performance. On the History & Cache frame, lower down the history states to 10 or whatever lower numbers that suites to your scratch disk.
3. Click Ok to apply the settings.

If your hard disk drive has low space available, you may clean your temporary files are removed all un-necessary documents or files on your hard disk drive. Uninstall those applications that you are not using or the games which is not productive in your collections.

If you have extra hard disk drive, you can use your secondary hard disk drive as your scratch disk to allocate more space in your scratch disk. To include your secondary hard disk drive or even a partition on your primary hard disk drive that has large space available, just follow the following steps.

1. Click Edit to move your mouse pointer to Preferences, the Preferences sub menu will then automatically show then select General. Or just press CTR+K in your Adobe Photoshop Desktop. Preferences Dialog box appears.
2. On the list box on the left side of the dialog box, select Performance. On the Scratch Disks frame, tick or mark a check to the drive correspond to your secondary hard disk drive or the secondary partition of your hard disk drive.
3. Click Ok to apply the settings.

And the ultimate solution if all options above is not working or not possible. Do not create or open a larger resolution of the image in your Photoshop. And, for every event or changes you made, purge all your activity history. For this, follow the following steps:

1. Click Edit on the Menu Bar.
2. Select Purge;
3. Click All.