what does it mean when the scratch disks are full?
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Free up additional disk space 'Scratch disk full' often means that the drive (or drives) used for scratch disks are running low or out of available space. Free up additional hard drive space by deleting unnecessary files from the scratch disk, or by moving your files off the scratch disk to another storage location.
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Method 1: Free up enough disk space The most common cause of the “scratch disk is full” error is the lack of free space in the drive that accommodates the scratch disk. If you don't set it yourself, the C:/ drive is automatically chosen to serve as a scratch disk.
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['Free-Up Memory Space On Your Computer.', 'Delete Photoshop Temporary Files.', 'Change The Scratch Disk On Startup.', 'Change The Scratch Disk Drive In Photoshop.', 'Disable The Auto Recovery Feature In Photoshop.', 'Let Photoshop Use More RAM.', 'Delete The Photoshop Cache Files.', 'Reset The Values For Crop Tool.']
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Photoshop: Could not initialize because the scratch disks are full. Hold down Cmd + Option (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt on Windows when you launch Photoshop. It will give you a dialog to select a different Scratch Disk with more space on it. View all 18 replies and continue this conversation.
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A thick disk has all space allocated at creation time. This space may contain stale data on the physical media. ... Space required for thin-provisioned virtual disk is allocated and zeroed on demand as the space is used. Unused space is available for use by other virtual machines.
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It could have been infected with malware, or you might have an outdated operating system. Also, there might be too many startup programs or too many temporary files. If you have an older laptop, you might have to replace your hard drive or memory cards.
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Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Mac). In the Preferences dialog, select or deselect the active check box to enable or disable a scratch disk. To change the scratch disk order, click the arrow buttons.
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If you're unsure which drive is used as a scratch disk, open Photoshop and go to Edit > Preferences >Scratch disks. Once you're into the Preferences menu, confirm which storage drives serve as a scratch disk and make sure it has at least 40 GB of free space.
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['Click on the Photoshop menu.', 'Go to Preferences and then Scratch Disk.', 'Tick the checkbox to select or remove a drive as the scratch disk.', 'Click OK.', 'Restart Photoshop.']
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['Free up disk space. ... ', 'Delete Photoshop temporary files. ... ', 'Defragment the hard disk. ... ', 'Clear the Photoshop cache. ... ', 'Clear Crop tool values. ... ', 'Change the Photoshop performance settings. ... ', 'Change or add additional scratch disks.']
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About scratch disks When your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Photoshop Elements uses scratch disks. A scratch disk is any drive or partition of a drive with free memory. By default, Photoshop Elements uses the hard drive on which the operating system is installed as its primary scratch disk.
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Don't open the game. When the disc stops spinning then the game should be fully installed and you shouldn't see any game transfer screen. It will take about 10 minutes.
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A cache hit is when an application needs data and finds that data in the cache (a good thing) so it never has to take the slower route and read the disc. A cache miss is when an application needs data and doesn't find it in the cache, so then it has to go and find the data on disc (a bad thing).
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The discs themselves may be perfectly fine and all of the data on them 100% intact, but if you have no means to read that data off, they're worthless. Honestly, the best thing to do every 10 or so years is to refresh your backup/archival media.
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Re: photoshop can't save my file- "disk is full" this means that you have no more hard disk space where you are trying to save the file. It has nothing to do with RAM. Buy a new drive so you have more space.
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Clear Disk Space If you're getting an error message that the scratch disk is full, it usually means you need to clear some space on whatever drive is defined as the scratch disk in Photoshop Preferences, or add additional drives for Photoshop to use as scratch space.
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Copying application means it's installing. You could try pausing and unpausing the "install" when it hangs or even installing the game while not connected to the internet.