Photoshop CS4 Scratch Disk question

i've asked questions about this topic before, but did not quiet get the answer i was looking for.
First: How much hard drive space should be allocated to photoshop? We are working with files at times exceeding 6GB. We have 32GB of RAM and a few hard drives, internal and external.
Second: the size of my Documents folder is no more than 250gb and the capacity of the system hard drive is 500. What else could possibly take up so much room? the programs take up about 50gb so im left with 200 missing GB?
Thank you for your attention.

mikhail7 wrote:
Second: the size of my Documents folder is no more than 250gb and the capacity of the system hard drive is 500. What else could possibly take up so much room? the programs take up about 50gb so im left with 200 missing GB?
Thank you for your attention.
Turn off system restore or at least manually delete older restore points and reduce the number of states to store. Windows will create restore points after every install and also in regular intervals without you doing anything. Even if they are incremental, they are taking up oodles of space. The hibernation cache is usually the exact size of your system directory + swap file + RAM amount, so if you have a lot of RAM and a large swap file, it wil lbe pretty large, too. It can however be eliminated by simply turning off the hibernation in the energy management options. For further cleanup, use Windows' own Disk Cleanup Utility or tools like CCleaner.
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