Adobe Photoshop/scratch disk is full

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Expert: - 6/8/2007


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I do a lot of Photoshopping on my 17" iMac. I now get the "scratch disk is full" message. I purchased a 500GB external hard drive to solve the problem, but now I don't know how to get Photoshop to recognize the external drive. What do I do?

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Hi Jaye,

Sounds like a nice external! To get Photoshop to recognize it as your scratch disk, just go to the Photoshop pulldown menu, and select Preferences. Then, from the submenu, select Plug-Ins and Scratch Disks. Next you'll see a dialog box that asks you which drive(s) you'd like to assign for scratch, and then just navigate to your external. You can assign up to four scratch disks.

This is what the menus look like:
http://little-works.com/all_experts/scratch.html

Hope this helps --

Lisa

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I've used Photoshop since the release of version 2. I taught college commercial art and graphic design for 10 years, and within that realm, taught Photoshop at every level, and with each successive product upgrade. My experience with Photoshop is thus extensive and well-rounded, from photo retouching to color adjustment to incorporating Photoshop and ImageReady into Web design. I am primarily a Mac user (since 1985), but am also PC-savvy.

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I've been a graphic designer for 22 years, was a national magazine art director, a designer for the Department of Defense, a college art instructor, and have my own freelance Web and graphic design business, LittleWorks (www.little-works.com). I've also worked for several printing companies, in both prepress and art.

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PICA award (Printing Industry of the Carolinas Award for the design of a media kit that accompanied a magazine I was art directing at the time)

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