Photoshop CS5 decreases my hard drive space?

Hi, today im working on some pictures, and when i open them i suddenly noticed that when i open images my hard drive space decreases... Example (30.8GB then when i opened images it became 30.5) im worried that everytime i have an image to edit it might always decrease my memory until it reaches 0.. so is there anyway to fix this?

Photoshop opens temporary files as part of its normal operation. Some of them can get quite large.
Normally it cleans up after itself, though you may have files left over if you have an application error or system crash.
Look for files of this form. If Photoshop is not running, generally speaking you can delete these files to clean up.
Photoshop TempXXXXXXXXXX (where Xs are numbers) in the root folders of hard drives identified as scratch drives.
XXXX_XXXXXXXXX_MVM_XX.tmp (where Xs are numbers) usually in your TEMP folder but also sometimes in the root folders of hard drives.
Photoshop also stores some files you don't want to delete, such as images you save, Camera Raw settings, preferences, etc. Generally these are not very large by comparison to a hard drive's total space, but (as with any application) you should understand that your using Photoshop will have a small ongoing impact on your disk space.
-Noel

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