Mountain Lion not liked by Photoshop as a Scratch Disk

I upgraded a volume to Mountain Lion and now Photoshop (CS6 - 13.0.1) won't let me use the volume as a Scratch Disk.
I could use said volume as a Scratch Disk with the previous OS (Snow Leopard) without a problem — now, when I try to open Photoshop I get a dialog box: "Could not open a scratch file because the disk is not available." I click OK and another dialog box pops up: "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available." and Photoshop closes.
I made the User > Library folder visible in case PS needed that and I repaired permissions, then I manually changed permissions on the volume to Read & Write for the Wheel (it was set to Read only) all with no success.
Any idea as to why I now cannot use a volume with the Mountain Lion OS as a scratch disk would be appreciated.
Geoff

I have no problem running PS CS6 with Mountain Lion. I would post in the Adobe support forums:
http://helpx.adobe.com/support/

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