Photoshop Elements 3.0 "scratch file"

When trying to put a border on a photo, it reads "cannot do this
operation because "scratch file" is full. Don't know what this is
and how do I empty it?
Larry [email protected]

Hi,
Disk full? Photoshop uses the 'scratch disk' - an area of HDD space - as its prime memory. It uses the available RAM as a cache for this disk-based memory. It has used this method since version 3.0 because the Windows Virtual Memory model is particularly inefficient when used to swap application data rather than program code. You can try to use vmmap, it will show a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory assigned by the Photoshop Elements.
Photoshop can require up to maybe 10x the size of the image in memory as available disk space. (The books say 3-5x, but if using Layers and with
History states this value can be easily exceeded). If you do not have sufficient free HDD space, then Photoshop will give you that warning.

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