Photoshop Help!!!

[.star.]

i keep getting a message whenever i try to open a few of my car chops. it tells me i cant open whatever.psd, and i cant even crop images because "scratch disk is full"

can someone tell me whats goin on? and how to fix it.

 

[Squid]

they are .psd not .gif, this has happend with .gifs for me but not .psd

 

[.star.]

this is the first time ive seen the message period. lol, i dont know what the hell is going on.

 

[Squid]

hmmm.. well i dont know what do to try restarting the program mabey its just a mess up. hope everything works out

 

[Super-Supra]

Your harddrive is full of pictures, or something it happened to me and I had to delete all my chops/pics before it went away.

 

[.star.]

i tried just completely restarting the computer. now i can open things. but only one at a time. still cant crop or run filters or anything like that.

 

[Squid]

yea try deleting some things u dont want no more to free up some space

 

[Super-Supra]

Agree.

 

[.star.]

i think i got it now. thnx for the help and quick responses.

 

[Squid]

any time

 

[Shannon]

When your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Photoshop and ImageReady use a proprietary virtual memory technology, also called scratch disks. A scratch disk is any drive or a partition of a drive with free memory. By default, Photoshop and ImageReady use the hard drive that the operating system is installed on as its primary scratch disk.

You can change the primary scratch disk and, in Photoshop, designate a second, third, or fourth scratch disk to be used when the primary disk is full. Your primary scratch disk should be your fastest hard disk, and should have plenty of defragmented space available.

The following guidelines can help you assign scratch disks:

• For best performance, scratch disks should be on a different drive than any large files you are editing.
• Scratch disks should be on a different drive than the one used for virtual memory.
• Scratch disks should be on a local drive. That is, they should not be accessed over a network.
• Scratch disks should be conventional (non-removable) media.
• Raid disks/disk arrays are good choices for dedicated scratch disk volumes.
• Drives with scratch disks should be defragmented regularly.

Basically, when there is not enough RAM available, Photoshop will use some of your hardrive space as RAM. This is referred to as a scrath disk. Similar to the Windows Page File.

You're computer doesn't have enough RAM for Photoshop, so it uses some of you hardrive space. The hardrive space Photoshop is using as RAM, is still not enough for Photoshop to operate, and thus you get that error.

Have a look in the Photoshop help about Scratch Disks.

 

[Jpec07]

that's helpful...

 

[Super-Supra]

That's so damn, Confusing!

 

[Klostrophobic]

What? The concept of commas?

I was wondering what scratch disks were, I was just too lazy to look it up.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
What? The concept of commas?

I was wondering what scratch disks were, I was just too lazy to look it up.

Well now you know.

 

[kideng]

And knowing is half the battle.
kideng