Photoshop 5.1 Photomerge - eating up too much HD space

I am often photomerging large sets of RAW images (8 to up 30 images at a time). Yesterday, I photomerged 25 images (each image is about 14MB) together. Before the photomerge ran, I had 35 GB HD space available. After the Photomerge finished and after saving it, I had 8 GB of HD space left. The saved image was about 880 MB total. Thinking the space would be recovered after I quit Photoshop and emptied the trash, I only had 27 GB of HD.
Therefore, Where did my 8 GB of HD space go? 35 GB to 27 GB, having saved a file that is 880MB. After restarting my computer and verifying the trash was emptied, my HD space was still at 27 GB.

That's Photoshop's scratch files. Close Photoshop and the space should be freed. If it doesn't, next time you run Photoshop it should clean up.
But it doesn't, always, no matter how much Adobe claims it will.
If your Scratch Disks, as defined in your Preferences - Performance, start with your startup drive, look in your TEMP folder for these giant remnants. If another drive, look in the root folder.
They'll have names of the form Photoshop Temp31713933688 (where the number will differ). But they're hard to miss because of their size. If Photoshop is not running you can freely delete these.
By the way, I did a Photomerge yesterday that used a total of 109 GB of scratch space. I've seen it go as high as 200 before.
You might want to consider getting another disk drive if you want to do big Photomerges. SSDs are dropping in price, and can make a GREAT scratch drive.
-Noel

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