I cant open a New document because it says my scratch disks are full every time?

I cant open a New document because it says my scratch disks are full every time.. I checked my selected scratch disk and it said I have about 9G of free space.. Problem is when I open the initial window to set the width, height and res it says my image size is 20.3G.. Is this the reason why I cant open a new Document?

Good day!
when I open the initial window to set the width, height and res it says my image size is 20.3G
What are the dimensions, resolution, Color Mode and bit depth?
Could you inadvertently be using ppcm instead of pip?
9GB of scratch space seems way low for serious image editing, check this out with regard to Photoshop Performance:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-performance-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html
Regards,
Pfaffenbichler

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