Having computer problems, can't post pics anymore.

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Does anyone here know how I can find my Primary scratch disc to empty it?

I tried to edit some pics to post here and I got a warning that blocked me stating “Primary scratch disc is full try removing some old files to make room”?

I use photo shop and run windows Xp , I’ve tried finding this scratch disk on my computer with no results?

I know it is not my main disk because that shows I have only used about 1/4 of the computers space.

It is not a removeable disc because I didn’t have any in when posting pics in the past?

I would appreciate any help from any computer people here…Please!

I made some awesome trees and can’t post the pics of them.

Thanks Guys!

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In one of the menus (it might be File or Edit) you should find an entry for “Preferences”. There will be an entry in the expanding menu that references storage or scratch disks.

If you go to the Help menu, you can look up scratch disks and there’s a section on how to set them up.

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Sounds like that’s a Photo Shop issue. Probably a file folder. I don’t use Photo Shop myself, but I have PhotoShop Elements. Under Edit/Preferences/Plugins & Scratch Disks you should find a list of the scratch disks. Mine has my C: drive as the Primary, so you couldn’t delete the disk. Just go to it and find the files and delete them.

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When I went to XP, I found my old Photoshop would not work. The upgrade file got identified as a "virus", too. Gotta love it.

I went on a Photoshop board and they said to go into Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance settings, Advanced, and change your virtual memory paging file size to 3150. Worked for me.

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Well I tried a combination of things suggested here and now I can edit and post pics again, thanks a MILLION my Friends.

It is too late to post them tonight but I will later.

Phew, I thought I was sunk on this one!

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Being a Photoshop user I was interested in this thread. I run it on a Mac and have never had a problem with the size of the primary scratch disk. It’s a virtual memory scheme like Windows uses for when you run out of ram. It dumps files, whatever to a hard drive. It’s a slower way of working, but it’s also what allows operating systems to open multiple programs and files, often way beyond what the physical memory is. The Mac os (I’m running Tiger) does not allow one to specify a size for this virtual type of memory, it does it dynamically up to what I believe to be the size of hard drive it’s set to go to. Windows allows one to set the size of virtual memory if you want, and that may be what happened. I’ve seen things like that happen when I ran a Windows box. What can also happen in Windows is if you have a hard drive that’s fairly full you can run into virtual memory choking from lack of room to work. A good rule of thumb I go by, in either OS, is to never have a hard drive more than 75% full.

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lol

I run paint shop pro V7.02 on a windows 98se system 1.6 AMD with 512MB DDR-SDRAM PC-2100 ram, Rage 128 video card, Direct X9 and love it no problems at all. I think thats why I still like “DC” over “DCC”.

Vista? “ba humbug”

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Yup, that’s a photoshop thing. Glad you got it sorted Jesse.

BTW…Vista IS THE VIRUS! [(-D]

[2c]

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You’ve got that right Kevin!

Visually Intriuging System of Terrible Applications - V.I.S.T.A

We use it the college - awful playing on the network and with some drivers. Like a unicycle on black ice. (spinning its wheel all the time). Patches are becomming available though and they do help.

BTW: Photoshop (rev 7 for me) lets you have up to four scratch disks and adjust the amount of real RAM that it can use. All through edit and preferences.

Karl

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That’s a fundamental difference between Macs and Windows machines. A Mac is like a car that has the hood welded shut so you can’t get in tinker with the engine.

It’s a good idea to defrag your disk often as well. A lot of space gets wasted that way. And the more full or wasted space, the more likely you are to run out of virtual memory.

PShop is an amazing program but the multiple levels of undo (History) that it is capable of uses a lot of memory.

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I’ve been using Vista on 3 machines for a year now and it has been great.

As with any OS on any platform, you have to run it on decent hardware. “Upgrading” is the enemy.

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Gee, I’m using Photoshop CS2 on my G5 dualie and Panther (OS 10.3.9) with 2.5 Gigs of Ram and well over 1 Tb of hard drive space available. Maybe that’s why I don’t have any trouble with it… In fact I don’t have any trouble on my laptop either and that only has 1 Gig of ram with Mac OS 4 and the pentium processors.

You shouldn’t have to “empty” the scratch disks as they should clear everytime you boot the computer. The cheapest way to help your situation out is to add more ram if you can.

BTW, I can remember having to fool around with the virtual memory size way back in Mac OS 9. Total pain in the … OS X just works.