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09/03/2004 06:11:12 PM · #1 |
2 weeks ago I gave CS scratch disk a whopping 9.7gb of space to play in (its own drive). Today I got an xp warning saying the drive was full. On investigation I found 1 file in the drive that was 9.5gb, deletion cured the problem but my question is why & how did CS create such a large file? why doesn't CS clear it down on close and do people delete this on a regulary basis?
ok, so actually that's questions not question but would be interested in what peeps do.
Thanks
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09/03/2004 06:17:26 PM · #2 |
| Sounds strange. PS should delete it's scratch file every time you exit, assuming you do actually exit occasionally, LOL. Still, even if PS remains open long-term, you'd think it would clean up after itself as you close files. I'd keep a watch on the scratch disk and see if it grows out of bounds again. |
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09/03/2004 07:21:46 PM · #3 |
From what I've noticed, PS has a memory leak. The more you close and re-open the more memory it takes up and therefore slows down everything.
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09/03/2004 07:25:00 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
From what I've noticed, PS has a memory leak. The more you close and re-open the more memory it takes up and therefore slows down everything. |
Interesting, I'll have to watch for this. I may not notice it, since I normally just leave PS open, and my machine gets rebooted about once a month at most.
It also may have to do with PS's interaction with certain drivers, e.g. video card drivers whaich are notoriously buggy. That would differ from machine to machine. |
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09/03/2004 07:44:53 PM · #5 |
| I seem to recall reading in some other forum that PS doesn't release memory (on scratch disks) while it's still running. Whatever the reasoning is, I'm pretty certain they don't consider it a bug. Cleaning up/recreating a scratch disk presents its own performance issues. |
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09/11/2004 06:53:53 AM · #6 |
So reading all of this i'm worried and want to check this file, but wgere do i find it/what is the extention of this file.
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09/11/2004 08:02:33 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by morpurgo:
So reading all of this i'm worried and want to check this file, but wgere do i find it/what is the extention of this file. |
Did you partition a drive for scratchdisk? if you did it should be the only file there, if you didn't it should be on your 'C' drive somewhere. Do a 'C' drive search on Photoshop Temp. It should end in numbers and will probably be a large file, if PS is closed when you do a search you should be able to delete all the Photoshop Temp files.
As a note, after I deleted the rather large file last week when I close CS down now the temp file gets deleted aautomatically.
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