Scratch disc full

[Shorn]

I tried to convert a 16 bit to an 8 bit and got this message.
I know what it means but how do I fix it, have no idea where the scratch disc is .
Thanks

 

[Les McLean]

You will find where your scratch disk (in photoshop), under edit..preferences..performance....scratch disk.
It will give the location of the scratch disk.

If the scratch disk is the used solely as a scratch disk (for example a separate physical disk, or a partition within a disk), you can delete all the files within the partition ( photoshop temp files.)
It would be worth making your scratch disk bigger also (I use a 10gig partition just as a scratch disk)

 

[Les McLean]

From adobes help files:

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.

RAID disks/disk arrays are good choices for dedicated scratch disk volumes.

Drives with scratch disks should be defragmented regularly

 

[Shorn]

Thanks Les, that sorted that for me
ps I now know what is needed but I can't find the temp folder in photoshop.
Also I found the scratch disk thingy in preferences, can I make a folder on a seperate h/d and call it say scratch_disc and point it to that in the preferences window ?

 

[Les McLean]

Thanks Les, that sorted that for me
ps I now know what is needed but I can't find the temp folder in photoshop.
Also I found the scratch disk thingy in preferences, can I make a folder on a seperate h/d and call it say scratch_disc and point it to that in the preferences window ?

the temp files are called Photoshop Temp34232252 (the number is variable)

if you do a search, you'll find them somewhere on your drives.

I don't think you can call a folder scratch disk and use that?

What I did was create a separate partition (K) on one of my hard drives and use that exclusively as a scratch disk.

 

[Shorn]

Thanks again Les, am onto it