Who Is Scratch Disk?
A Scratch Disk Is a Hard Disk Drive or Ssd Used for Temporary Storage While Photoshop Is Running. Photoshop Uses This Space to Store Portions of Your Documents...
A scratch disk is a hard disk drive or SSD used for temporary storage while Photoshop is running. Photoshop uses this space to store portions of your documents and their history panel states that don't fit in the memory or RAM of your machine.
How do I empty the scratch disk in Photoshop?
- Launch Photoshop and open a project.
- From the menu, go to Edit > Purge > All. This will clear all the various Photoshop caches.
- Click OK on the confirmation prompt.
- Repeat these steps for other projects, and check if that resolves the 'scratch disk is full' error.
What does a scratch disk do?
A scratch disk is a hard disk drive or SSD used for temporary storage while Photoshop is running. Photoshop uses this space to store portions of your documents and their history panel states that don't fit in the memory or RAM of your machine.
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