scratch disks full?

I get a message when trying to open up photoshop 6.0 and says scratch disks are full and not enough memoery to initialize MP library. Can you help with some suggestions?

Buy more ram.
lol... I dont know i dont use PS, is the scratch dis on the HD or in RAM?

Its probbaly a setting to increase the scratch disc size, perhaps you could try searching the forums for your answer.

Scratch disks are your hard drive. Make sure in your preferences that your scratch disks are not located on the same drive as Photoshop.

And I have Photoshop set to use 85% of my RAM,...I barely ever have to use the scratch disks.

Originally posted by mattboy_slim
Make sure in your preferences that your scratch disks are not located on the same drive as Photoshop.

Why? I have mine on the same drive....Even have my XP Paging File on the same drive. (XP on D.....PS, scratch, Paging on C)

hi there..

your hard drive is full...
go thru and delete any old temp files programs ect you dont need
check your c:/windows/temp... an delete all files inside that except for files dated the same day

it is recommended that the scratch disk not be on the same drive as photoshop for performance reasons..in fact if you have a big enough hard drive make a partition of around 3 gig and allocate that as your primary scratch disk...with no programs installed...solely for photoshop) then allocate any other drives making the drive that photoshop is on the last scratch disk...

if you have a spare hard drive then thats even better use that soley for the scratch disk (nothing else installed on it..

hope it helped

grandad

I've just done that and the problem is now solved... have partioned part of my HD and cleared it completely... redirect the scratch to that and its working...

thanks for the help