 Erin Appelbaum |
Can't open Photoshop When I try to open an image in Photoshop 7 or try to open the program itself, I get the error message, Could not load default brushes because the scratch disks are full, photoshop will not open. I use Mac OS X 10.2.1. and have enough memory. What are scratch disks and how can I remedy this situation?
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Nobu Nagase |
When physical memory runs out of space during the execution of a program like Photoshop, virtual memory is used to swap out the data. The virtual memory is often called a scratch disk. By default, Photoshop uses the primary disk as a scratch disk. The message means that there is not enough disk space to be used as a scratch disk. To remedy this situation:
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I also have PS7 and have had that happen a couple of times. Restarting Photoshop always made it go away, so I wasn't sure it was a real problem. I haven't seen it now for a really long time, like about a year, and nothing has changed about my setup, so who knows?
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Nobu Nagase |
Memory leak may be possible. Rebooting may take care of the problem for a while.
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Erin Appelbaum |
Nobi and Carloyn, thank you so much for responding. Nobi, thank you for explaining what scratch disk is. It helped a lot. Files were deleted and the problem has apparently been remedied. At least, so far. I knew I could count on the BetterPhoto community. Thanks again. Peter
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