# Scratchdisk full? (what does it mean) **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924 "2006-03-31T08:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/1 "2006-03-31T08:41:32Z")
Hi, Im new to photoshop and i just tried cropping an image and it said ‘scratchdisk full’ What does it mean and how can i fix it? ---
**Author:** ![nrirureta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@nrirureta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nrirureta)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/2 "2006-03-31T08:55:14Z")
its the memory that photoshop uses… you probably have it on the same drive as windows… try Edit\>Purge and if that doesnt help move photoshop scratchdisk to another drive that have more space… look here for solutions : [http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328548.html](http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328548.html) ---
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/3 "2006-03-31T09:32:12Z")
thank you! ---
**Author:** ![CanisMajor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@CanisMajor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CanisMajor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/4 "2006-04-01T07:17:25Z")
I use CS2 and I had something weird happen to me a few days ago. While attempting to crop at a certain size and change in resolution PS froze up. Eventually I had to reboot. When I started up PS again I could not create a new document or save a document because my scratch disk was too full. So I checked and sure enough the disk was full. That was wierd because it is a big disk and I did not add anything to it. I tried to defrag thinking that would help but it could not defrag because there was not enough free room. Stumped, I went looking on the drive for the offending folder. Eventually I found it deep in the PS files. PS had created a temp file that was exactly the size of the free space on my disk. I deleted the file and rebooted. Everything is fine now. I am not saying that this is your problem, just thought I would share it. . ---
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/5 "2006-04-01T13:03:54Z")
I fixed mine by changing the scratch disk from startup to c:/ and d:/ then i also changed how much memory photoshop was allowed to use! ---
**Author:** ![CanisMajor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@CanisMajor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CanisMajor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/6 "2006-04-01T16:34:24Z")
Yeah, I reassigned the scratch disk after that happened. ---
**Author:** ![Ravmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ravmaster](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ravmaster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scratchdisk-full-what-does-it-mean/183924/7 "2006-04-02T17:22:37Z")
that happened to me and i just cleared off some of my stuff to my :d\ drive