Photoshop 2014 keeps running out of ram and I am losing my work.

When I save a PSD file I get the message "out of ram and cannot save", or cannot clone, use brush, etc. because out of ram. This is when I first open photoshop too.
I have a new machine with 32 gigs of ram and 1 terrabyte SS memory. Scratch disks are pointed to my hard drive and two external drives.
I have had Photoshop older versions on much smaller machines in the past and never run out of ram. This is a bug in photoshop 2014 - no one has been able to fix it so far.
I am losing work and time when I have deadlines to make. Photoshop is becoming worthless - I am going to use gimp.......

jlnsvfx wrote:
…Scratch disks are pointed to my hard drive and two external drives…
That is blatant user error. If you have other drives, UNCHECK your boot drive as a scratch disk.
The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS which is not checkedlisted as a scratch disk in Photoshop Preferences.. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

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