Summary: #1 - 0:40 Clean your drive used as a scratch disk with "Disk Cleanup" #2 - 6:30 Edit > Purge > All #3 - 6:47 Add more drives to scratch disk in Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks
Mr. PI, I have loved your videos through many years! Just wanted to say Thank You! for the knowledge that you share and the good attitude that you present! You are great person and an great teacher all in one. I just hope you realize that!
now what do i do if i can't acces photoshop? Most of the steps require you to be inside of the program, but I can't do that. It tells me my scratch disks are full and then proceeds to close the program.
This other guy showed me how to empty caches by going to the Finder. Hold down the option key while opening the GO menu. You will see LIBRARY. select that.
@@angeladanforth5728 yes delete your temp and temp% files by pressing windows + r then delete those files from recycle bin too or you can just do ctrl+a then shift + delete those directly delete from your pc , then open your Photoshop and clear cache files or change your drive location which have free space , wht happened to me is , my cache files are saved in f folder and that folder got filled with my class recordings, then i shift that recordings to another folder and got some free space and fortunately my photoshop worked for me , u can check this thing too in your pc hope this helps !
First and only time i've seen anything to criticise in your videos. "Gigabit" and "Gigabyte" are two very different things!...apart from that, very useful, thank you
Thank you! I doubt you realize how much your videos help me. You see, I have short term memory due to a traumatic brain injury. The beauty of this, when I get stuck with PS I just search your videos for the help I need. Can’t do that in traditional classroom settings. Thank you again for being an amazing person and teacher!
@@Ap0c41yptic actually it’s not fake. I was genuinely surprised. Most of them are just some dude showing you his blurry screen with a computer voice narrating in poor English.
@@Ap0c41yptic honestly, the guys got a quality mic, the lighting is set up perfectly in his face, the screencap is high quality. I don’t really bother commenting on these videos but this guy clearly put some time and effort into this.
PERFECT TIMING! I had this problem resently. I ended up permanently deleting everything on my computer unintentionally. (Not my finest hour.) I'm EXTREMELY lucky I had all my inportant files backed up on a USB. (Which I highly recommend.) I had to redownload Photoshop. I didn't realise how much unnecessary stuff I had on my computer. It all worked out for the best in the end. Thanks for all the tutorials man they really help me out your the best.
I can't thank you enough ❤❤❤. I have been working since 4 hours on a t-shirt mockup. When I wanted to save the project it shows the error. I checked all of the disks. Now my project is saved.
Very great tutorial. I am currently experiencing this on my Adobe Photoshop application. I googled the possible solutions. After that, I tried to use TH-cam as well and never taught you have a video solution for this problem. Thanks Unmesh, you are really an expert because even grade school student can learn from this video. Stay awesome!
Thanks for tips. One more thing to add is if there's an urge to save file and you can't because of memory issues or if something in your layers creates a conflict situation (eg error type: Can't save - deal with it) you can switch off all layers (you may group it first so not to do it one by one). Basically what you result with is a file with no info on the screen but all your work gonna be saved (as are your nerves).
If you cannot start Photoshop cc2019, you cannot change the scratch disk allocation in its preferences. Hold down CTRL+ALT(PC) / CMD+OPTION(Mac) as soon as Photoshop starts to get the scratch disk menu:
I really love this, and it came at the perfect time, because I just got this error. However, I really wish you hadn't called it "the final solution". Maybe "the best solution"? :)
Thank you so much Unmesh. I am trying to sort out sratch disk full issue when you're the bell ring to fpr this lesson. You're an angel. Soooo grateful for this help and other lessons you give.
@@georgepapagiannis1 Get a history book - grow a conscience. The Jewish people kindly ask us to never forget - this is what not even knowing looks like
After purchasing an SSD drive, I fixed my problem just as you laid out. It was frustrating to say the least to always get that message. NO MORE!!! Thanks so much!
uhm. i see many problems with this "final solution" a: i can't open photoshop to access the "edit" thing b: i only have 1 scratch disk and i can't interact with it c: nothing works
I have really learnt a lot from your video tutorials. I would also love it if you can do a video on using Photoshop to create posters of events. Thank you
BRO. You are the man. Never had this problem before and it freaked me out. Went to the disc cleanup strat like you suggested and worked like a charm, well over 20gb of temp files deleted
for the people who cant enter the program in the first place . just go to the hard disk which the program was installed on it , after that go search for unuseful files and delete them , keep doing that until the program finally get opened then do as the guy say about changing to an empty hard disk .
Thankyou. Just finding out that you can assign drives for the scratch disk. I had only my operating system drive ticked with 6 gb free and another drive with 73 gb free unticked. SO Simple. Thankyou
Love you unmish 👌🏻 you are the best photoshop master 😍😍🤩 I really can't watch others tutorials ,, only yours when it comes to photoshop.. please stay on TH-cam
You could add ram, it is more expensive but photoshop uses ram first, then runs out of ram, and then some of your photoshop file will overflow on your slower scratch disks. DD4 Ram goes at 12.80 - 25.60 gigabytes a second depending on the ram speed (1600 mHz to 3200 mHz). 16 Gigs of ram costs $80 USD. Scratch Disk Options: A good m.2 ssd (looks like a stick of gum) goes at 4.0 gigs/s, a bad one goes at 1.4 gig/s. A good 2.5 inch SSD (looks like a thin pack of cigarettes) goes at 0.65 gig/s, a bad ssd goes at 0.30 gig/s. A slow spinning 3.5 inch HDD (size of 2 stacked PS4 game cases) goes at 0.14 gig/s. Each option gets cheaper and slower in speed. Photoshop also tells you how much space your document needs on the bottom left hand corner. That space is how much space you need for your ram and scratch disk combined. So you don't buy too much slow scratch disk storage, but rather buy less scratch disk storage that is faster.
Remember that whatever you connect externally is limited by the interface, for example USB. An external SSD will be a lot slower than an internal one. If you have the choice (meaning, enough connectors and the knowledge to do it), put another drive inside your computer first. Maybe the latest computers with USB 3.1 or Thunderbolt 3 connectors may be better in terms of speed but for the most part, newer computers already have enough storage to begin with and may not need an external scratch disk. Anyway, just my 2 cts.
In windows system. HOLD ALT+CTRL AFTER CLICKING PHOTOSHOP ICON TO OPEN SCRATCH DISK SETUP WHILE LAUNCHING IT. That information must be in the error dialog when Photoshop fails to run due to scratch disk being full BUT ISN'T. Adobe must add that dialog on error window
Hi, great video. Even though I have 2 SSD external hard drives connected to my Mac, only 1 appears (Active) on the scratch disks window. Is there something that I am missing?
Guys, instead of breaking your head sometimes, while opening the project check if you set it to inches or pixels, I found it out the hard way, I didn't notice, I was tryna open a new project with 1000 x 1000 "inches" instead of "pixels" , be careful even if you have a lot of space sometime this could be the issue, select and always use pixels not inches
Thanks more than real my friend, I've been working for 2 weeks but I haven't found any solution. You came across me and my problem was solved immediately, thank you very much. I subscribed and liked it my buddy.
This will work for majority who have plenty of space but still error shows......-Just change dimensions to pixels by pixels while creating new file and make sure inches is not selected ..
Pls can you make video on Studio Lightning using Photoshop. I am a big fan of yours and i dont get any video in internet which tells me the actual story behind this effect. Your explanation is far better then other youtubers.
Purge, that's what I needed. I looked up solutions before and all only talked about adding new drives, which is not an option for me. I've lost hours of work in the past because my only option was to close PS and restart my machine. Future me thanks you.
Thank You Great video Though I was going to have to invest in a new computer, now it is running fine and faster. Shut down the C Drive and it seems to be working fine on the external Drive
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Not just a master of his crafts, but also an honest and devoted teacher. No mask can cover the light emanating from this one. Thank you.
The way he says 4Tb breaks my heart since my biggest ExtHd is still 500Gb 😭😭😭
RamiFive4Five lol are you living in 2010?
you will reach there some day brother hardwork and smart work pays
Lol....im using 80Gb
who cares I have 250GB SSD. Stop storing trash on your laptop
Tf He says as if it's a piece of cake owning one😢😢.... I only have a 1TB
Summary:
#1 - 0:40 Clean your drive used as a scratch disk with "Disk Cleanup"
#2 - 6:30 Edit > Purge > All
#3 - 6:47 Add more drives to scratch disk in Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks
Thank you! Phew!
Binod
Mr. PI, I have loved your videos through many years! Just wanted to say Thank You! for the knowledge that you share and the good attitude that you present! You are great person and an great teacher all in one. I just hope you realize that!
Whenever I have an issue, and then I search for a solution, you are always the first one to show up and your videos are always helpful! Thank you!
I do start to finish art files on Photoshop and was starting to get this almost daily. Helped a lot, you're very good at what you do. Thank you!
now what do i do if i can't acces photoshop?
Most of the steps require you to be inside of the program, but I can't do that.
It tells me my scratch disks are full and then proceeds to close the program.
I ended up reinstalling it on a different disk with more space, worked just fine
@@tuur200o8 how did you get a new disk to show up? I can't even get that far.
@@dezziefbby same here
idk if its still relavant but hold ctrl+alt while launching ph and it will let you change the scratch
This other guy showed me how to empty caches by going to the Finder. Hold down the option key while opening the GO menu. You will see LIBRARY. select that.
I cant even access to photoshop to clean my disk and to see in what disk is
absolutely !
Same! were you able to fix it?
@@angeladanforth5728 yes delete your temp and temp% files by pressing windows + r then delete those files from recycle bin too or you can just do ctrl+a then shift + delete those directly delete from your pc , then open your Photoshop and clear cache files or change your drive location which have free space , wht happened to me is , my cache files are saved in f folder and that folder got filled with my class recordings, then i shift that recordings to another folder and got some free space and fortunately my photoshop worked for me , u can check this thing too in your pc hope this helps !
@@angeladanforth5728 i had pass some documents to an external disk, delete some apps and clean the trash and caches from photoshop files and it works
But you have to becareful with the caches of photoshop, i watch other video
First and only time i've seen anything to criticise in your videos. "Gigabit" and "Gigabyte" are two very different things!...apart from that, very useful, thank you
Don't you think it was his accent?
Thank you! I doubt you realize how much your videos help me. You see, I have short term memory due to a traumatic brain injury. The beauty of this, when I get stuck with PS I just search your videos for the help I need. Can’t do that in traditional classroom settings. Thank you again for being an amazing person and teacher!
Wow, this is the highest quality tech help video i think i've ever watched!
fake comment
@@Ap0c41yptic actually it’s not fake. I was genuinely surprised. Most of them are just some dude showing you his blurry screen with a computer voice narrating in poor English.
@@Ap0c41yptic honestly, the guys got a quality mic, the lighting is set up perfectly in his face, the screencap is high quality. I don’t really bother commenting on these videos but this guy clearly put some time and effort into this.
@@Ap0c41yptic the quality of your videos on the other hand...ouch.
HE JUST GOT ROASTED
PERFECT TIMING! I had this problem resently. I ended up permanently deleting everything on my computer unintentionally. (Not my finest hour.)
I'm EXTREMELY lucky I had all my inportant files backed up on a USB. (Which I highly recommend.)
I had to redownload Photoshop. I didn't realise how much unnecessary stuff I had on my computer. It all worked out for the best in the end.
Thanks for all the tutorials man they really help me out your the best.
I can't thank you enough ❤❤❤. I have been working since 4 hours on a t-shirt mockup. When I wanted to save the project it shows the error.
I checked all of the disks. Now my project is saved.
Very great tutorial. I am currently experiencing this on my Adobe Photoshop application. I googled the possible solutions. After that, I tried to use TH-cam as well and never taught you have a video solution for this problem. Thanks Unmesh, you are really an expert because even grade school student can learn from this video. Stay awesome!
Thanks for tips. One more thing to add is if there's an urge to save file and you can't because of memory issues or if something in your layers creates a conflict situation (eg error type: Can't save - deal with it) you can switch off all layers (you may group it first so not to do it one by one). Basically what you result with is a file with no info on the screen but all your work gonna be saved (as are your nerves).
You just earned a new subscriber!! I have having trouble with this for days and you are my hero !!
If you cannot start Photoshop cc2019, you cannot change the scratch disk allocation in its preferences.
Hold down CTRL+ALT(PC) / CMD+OPTION(Mac) as soon as Photoshop starts to get the scratch disk menu:
my mac doesn't show the scratch disk preferences when i hit CMD+OPT on photoshop start up, any help?
@@lvsbnd6302 did u hold it down
It wont do anything
This video instantly helped me! Thank you so, so, so much, and wish you the best of health and improvement in your career!
PERFECT TIMING! I have have this problem for 1 week now this helped me a lot dude!
This worked. Thank you so much man. You are a legend! Subbed!!
I really love this, and it came at the perfect time, because I just got this error. However, I really wish you hadn't called it "the final solution". Maybe "the best solution"? :)
Thank you so much Unmesh. I am trying to sort out sratch disk full issue when you're the bell ring to fpr this lesson. You're an angel. Soooo grateful for this help and other lessons you give.
thanks so much for sharing this, I am a total newbie to photoshop and your tutorials are a life saving
You do NOT want to call it "The Final Solution"
get a life
@@georgepapagiannis1 Bruh. Thats just a terrible title hahaha. I was hesitant to click cus it made me think photoshop was finna explode.
@@georgepapagiannis1 Get a history book - grow a conscience.
The Jewish people kindly ask us to never forget - this is what not even knowing looks like
I HAVE MORE THAN 100GB FREE STILL SAME ERROR
@@georgepapagiannis1 stay mad
Thank you. This video was so helpful
The amazing thing is that all viewers are editors!!👍
Thank you from Cameroon 🇨🇲 Your video helped me sort out that problem
After purchasing an SSD drive, I fixed my problem just as you laid out. It was frustrating to say the least to always get that message. NO MORE!!! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much man! I just checked all of my drives and now I can save my edit.
uhm. i see many problems with this "final solution"
a: i can't open photoshop to access the "edit" thing
b: i only have 1 scratch disk and i can't interact with it
c: nothing works
me tooooo did you get it to work???
@@CCPSingapore2011 nope. and now i can't edit Barack Obama memes :(
😂
Super helpful even all these years later. Thank you!
This is going to be your biggest video
your awesome man. am a big fan I always watch your tutorials, its very clear and easy to follow, keep it up!
I have really learnt a lot from your video tutorials. I would also love it if you can do a video on using Photoshop to create posters of events. Thank you
Thank you, I have solved my problems with Scratch disk with all these 3 steps
Thanks for helping my problem! i hope this video helps others as well
Am I the only one inloved with his tutorials and idolizing him?
that's why i love this guy he is so straight to the point you save my life
Couldn't figure out why my monster iMac was running PS slowly. One-click solved the problem, thanks Unmesh!
Refreshing presentation style. Love the suggestions and very helpful for myself....
Thank you very much brother!!!
So frustrated with the scratch disks full all the time 😢
So straightforward and easy to follow - thank you! Exaclty what I needed and a couple great tips along the way.
Your English is very much fluent and the first method helped me thanks to you :-)
BRO. You are the man.
Never had this problem before and it freaked me out.
Went to the disc cleanup strat like you suggested and worked like a charm, well over 20gb of temp files deleted
Changing the scratch disk helped. Thanks!
dude you are the best, keep going, i have been learning with you for 4 months now on, thank you.
THANKS! The Disk Clean Up program worked for me
for the people who cant enter the program in the first place . just go to the hard disk which the program was installed on it , after that go search for unuseful files and delete them , keep doing that until the program finally get opened then do as the guy say about changing to an empty hard disk .
Your teaching is evergreen ❤❤❤❤❤ love you. Thank you very much
You are such amazing soul.....Really love your videos...They give deep relief and solve real life problem in photoshop...Thanks
Thankyou. Just finding out that you can assign drives for the scratch disk. I had only my operating system drive ticked with 6 gb free and another drive with 73 gb free unticked. SO Simple. Thankyou
best walk through on solving scratch disk issue....THANK YOU!!!!
Thankyou! it helped me a lot. I just changed de scratch folder and uncheck the "Use processor graphics" one the preferences aswell.
Love you unmish 👌🏻 you are the best photoshop master 😍😍🤩 I really can't watch others tutorials ,, only yours when it comes to photoshop.. please stay on TH-cam
This video is very useful and clear guidance. Thank you very much. Keep it up 👍
Genius as always..!! The very first solution itself worked..!! 🙏🏻
You could add ram, it is more expensive but photoshop uses ram first, then runs out of ram, and then some of your photoshop file will overflow on your slower scratch disks.
DD4 Ram goes at 12.80 - 25.60 gigabytes a second depending on the ram speed (1600 mHz to 3200 mHz).
16 Gigs of ram costs $80 USD.
Scratch Disk Options:
A good m.2 ssd (looks like a stick of gum) goes at 4.0 gigs/s, a bad one goes at 1.4 gig/s.
A good 2.5 inch SSD (looks like a thin pack of cigarettes) goes at 0.65 gig/s, a bad ssd goes at 0.30 gig/s.
A slow spinning 3.5 inch HDD (size of 2 stacked PS4 game cases) goes at 0.14 gig/s.
Each option gets cheaper and slower in speed.
Photoshop also tells you how much space your document needs on the bottom left hand corner. That space is how much space you need for your ram and scratch disk combined. So you don't buy too much slow scratch disk storage, but rather buy less scratch disk storage that is faster.
wow amazing.... 2 days back I have the same problem Thanks for the videos Love from PAKISTAN
Remember that whatever you connect externally is limited by the interface, for example USB. An external SSD will be a lot slower than an internal one. If you have the choice (meaning, enough connectors and the knowledge to do it), put another drive inside your computer first. Maybe the latest computers with USB 3.1 or Thunderbolt 3 connectors may be better in terms of speed but for the most part, newer computers already have enough storage to begin with and may not need an external scratch disk. Anyway, just my 2 cts.
In windows system. HOLD ALT+CTRL AFTER CLICKING PHOTOSHOP ICON TO OPEN SCRATCH DISK SETUP WHILE LAUNCHING IT.
That information must be in the error dialog when Photoshop fails to run due to scratch disk being full BUT ISN'T. Adobe must add that dialog on error window
I love you for this! Also, your audio is amazing!
Excelent video, helped to no end a desperate concept artist on a tight schedule
So easy! This was very helpful!
Life saver! Been working all day on a project and got this error message.
Thanks alot, saved my life.
😂
You just save me soooooooo much time and got rid of my headache! Your videos are always the best :)
Hey! Can you teach us how to use the video editor in Photoshop? Btw love ur videos
Good idea!
Hi, great video. Even though I have 2 SSD external hard drives connected to my Mac, only 1 appears (Active) on the scratch disks window. Is there something that I am missing?
Thank you a million times!!!! Very clear instructions and this was the only tutorial that actually worked for me
Thank you for your contribution and hard work. Thank you very much.
Solved my problem in the half video even...you're a great teacher
Technical and creative. Thanks giving advice in this area as well. I definitely came across this issue a few times.
Thank you so much piximperfect for this 😊😊
Thanks a ton!!!
you are really awesome .. all things you tell in clearly fab.....
I am the fresher for your channel
Thank you so much for the video
Best of luck!
Guys, instead of breaking your head sometimes, while opening the project check if you set it to inches or pixels, I found it out the hard way, I didn't notice, I was tryna open a new project with 1000 x 1000 "inches" instead of "pixels" , be careful even if you have a lot of space sometime this could be the issue, select and always use pixels not inches
bless you tyvm sir!
@@officialquate1341 glad i can help
Thanks more than real my friend, I've been working for 2 weeks but I haven't found any solution. You came across me and my problem was solved immediately, thank you very much. I subscribed and liked it my buddy.
Thank you thank you thank you!! I learned so much from this video and it really helped me. You are a life saver!
Really you helped me . Thanks for this so much informative video.
Amazing!! Thank you so much for posting this. Totally worked!
Thank you bro, very helpful and professional video! 🙏🏻
This will work for majority who have plenty of space but still error shows......-Just change dimensions to pixels by pixels while creating new file and make sure inches is not selected ..
It worked great all I needed was my other drive and use pixels instead of inches, thank you.
It worked... Thanks so much dear... Hats off to you
Pls can you make video on Studio Lightning using Photoshop. I am a big fan of yours and i dont get any video in internet which tells me the actual story behind this effect. Your explanation is far better then other youtubers.
You saved my life man. Thank you so much.
Wow you're so amazing bro the way you describe solving the issues
You make it look so easy bro...good job
THANKS !
great video, easy to follow. Great teacher!
Thank you for your help. This video tutorial is very appreciated.
Purge, that's what I needed. I looked up solutions before and all only talked about adding new drives, which is not an option for me. I've lost hours of work in the past because my only option was to close PS and restart my machine. Future me thanks you.
Nice video
Can you plz make a video on seamless pattern or texture which doesn't repeat patches (to use on 3d objects)
Very Helpful!!!Thank you!
Thanks you so much for this tutorial, a true life saver.
It’s helpful for my work Ps that is always Full Disk. Thanks for sharing
Thank You Great video Though I was going to have to invest in a new computer, now it is running fine and faster. Shut down the C Drive and it seems to be working fine on the external Drive
This is the best THE BEST help tech I watched :)
Thank you!!!!! Good video just needed 2 minutes to solve it!