Cause of "unable to write to disk error"

Using a epson perfection v100 scanner and keep getting an unable to write to disk error after it  scan and will not copy.   Any ideas about what to try to fix this? thank you..
p.s. using snow leopard and I have already tried to re-dowload software off the epson site.

Have you tried...
Trashing preferences?
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