49 Xeon Gold cores, and a RTX 3090 with 24 GB of video memory. I have 448 GB of memory with Photoshop's allowance set to max at 365K GB.

History states I have set to 1000 and have never hit my limit to the best of my memory. Pixel dimensions are often at or over 250000 X 25000 px. What is limiting PS from keeping on writing scratch files and filling gobs more of hard drive space? Is there some sort of hard limit in the code that says 'Nope, that's all you get for scratch! We don't care that you have ten other hard drives begging to be used.' You can purge, or change drives for scratch, turn one off, another on, in preferences, reset preferences, but nothing works. It would be fine if I could shut down PS and restart, but often the error comes as a surprise after I've been editing very large files for a while and then I can't save my work and lose it all.Īnyway, I've read various threads about scratch issues going back years and nobody seems to have an aswer to this specific big file type problem.

Doesn't matter how I swap the different drives around. But PS thinks my drive/s are full after I've been at it for a while. I have many TERRABYTES of room on multiple drives for scratch. Has anyone who works on gigapixel sized images or other extremely large file sizes, found a way around the scratch disk full error you get even if you have tons of hard drive space? This isn't the usual newbie scratch drive stuff. I am not posting this as the 'solution' since its more of a workaround than a solution/fix, but thank you for at least getting it working again for me till Adobe applies a actual 'update/fix' for the issue. How about a Update/Patch for those of us with PS7 (or those of us that can't afford to 'upgrade' to a newer version of Photoshop) m, that would allow PS7 to recognize a larger drive (say up to 4tb for example), so we can use it without this frustration, Photoshop should have been remedied of this 'known' issue, long agoīut thanks to your help i am now able to use it again, but i would hope for a real fix to be applied as this is a known and frustrating issue

OK, i had to restart my PC to finish some Windows updates, and after restarting, i tried to set the Scratch Disk location, and it seemed to work this time, i reset it to E Drive, instead of C, and Photoshop opened up without the error and is usable now, the main issue i have with this is that this is a 'work around' not really a 'fix' for the error/issue I just tried what you said, and i chose the other drive that it works on ,(i went from C drive to E drive for 'First' Startup), and it gave the exact same error, but yet if i were to boot to that drive Photoshop works perfect

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