Photoshop Temp

Hi,
Very recently my Photoshop CS3 is crashing. I was told by a tech guy to make sure the drives have more free space, I found two new files have been created 'Photoshop Temp89961636' & 'Photoshop Temp152942948', their combined file size is 0.99 GB.
What are these files, can i delete them and are there any reasons that can cause Photoshop to crash.
Thanks

lister_uk wrote: Mylenium's reply while consistent with the general forum etiquette of belittling newer members with overtly sarcastic replies is correct. Photoshop, like any software, can crash (for many reasons) and yes, temp files can be deleted.
When you spend a lot of time answering questions, vagueness from newer posters gets a bit wearisome.
When no details of the user's system or the circumstances of the problem are given it is hard to give a useful answer.
Nobody reads this: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0
Personally I think it should be in a more prominent position.

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Yes, I am talking about scratch files.
Two parts...
If the Photoshop application is run all week and we process 1GB of files through there it is going to make a huge scratch file correct? That is also why am curious if I can put a line of code at the end of the script to terminate Photoshop which will delete the scratch file.
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Concerning the automatic deletion of scratch files...
I will take a closer look. I just had to go in delete 4 different scratch files on the day I originally posted this thread (3/7/2009).
I am going to confirm that the installation is up to date.
Another question which you will probably be able to answer right away. If I (user "A") am bumped out due to an application crash and someone else (user "B") logs in will it still delete the scratch file upon Photoshop launch?
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[Startup Disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/backup
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Hi doctorhifi,
I was able to download your file.
Settings: Cache Tile Size: 1028K (my normal setting)
Dragging it from Explorer to Photoshop, the application opens and loads the file in 11 seconds. At that point I'm presented with a dialog with a list of 9 missing fonts (not unexpected, every system is different).
Just to get to the point where the dialog is presented, my Photoshop Temp scratch file grows to 27.4 GB. System RAM usage (per Task Manager) reaches 17.9 GB. Clicking through the missing font dialog and displaying the document causes RAM usage to go to 18.1 GB.
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Dragging it from Explorer to Photoshop, the application opens and loads the file in 7 seconds. At that point I'm presented with the missing font dialog.
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Chris tells it like it is, and makes the (very valid) point that if you want to whiz through editing, having more resources in your computer is a good idea.
Photoshop uses up to the amount of memory you allow it. It does so since its memory management "takes over" from Windows, because Adobe has found it to be more efficient to do so. It may be that your choice of its limits is not the best one for your particular system.
In this particular case, you did something that caused Photoshop to allocate the max RAM, and I suspect it's just not running well with Photoshop using its max amount of memory and the type of tasks that your system or other apps are doing in the background - you have some choices:
1. Reconfigure Photoshop - e.g., reduce the max RAM you allow it to use - and hope that you can divide up the system resources better to avoid such thrashing.
2. Reconfigure your operating system to keep it from doing so much background stuff (e.g., disable indexing).
3. Do fewer things at the same time - e.g., don't run as many applications when you try to run Photoshop. Also review all the stuff you have installed and running with a tool like AutoRuns from SysInternals to make sure you haven't loaded it up with junkware.
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5. Use the 64 bit version of Photoshop for large tasks.
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3000Photos wrote:
since then it has taken up almost 35-50 gigs of my F drive and it's still using 40-50 % of my physical memory on something as simple as cropping a small 10 megapixel photo... I've never had a problem like this in the past...
I believe your recollection is flawed. As you use it, Photoshop has always expanded its memory usage up to the max limit you give it.
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Having the PS scratch and the paging file competing for access on the same physical disk is not good.
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AdamDux wrote:
c.pfaffenbichler:
Please take a series of 6 or 7 HD photos (3264x2448 for example) and let me know how it turns out. As mentioned, the free mobile apps can create a panorama in seconds and it's seamless.
I'm not interested in 72dpi 800x600 goofy images.
Noel: Do the same.
"HD photos (3264x2448 for example)"? My images are 6144 x 4096 pixels at 16 bits/channel, Adam. I don't work with little stuff.
The wider panorama I showed above was from nine such images. Here's the result just after Photomerge completed, done with Cylindrical and Auto settings. Note the pixel dimensions listed for the stitching result.
Here are another couple of examples, including one that contains a lot of water, which is traditionally difficult for stitching software.
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As far as I can see it's not important whether you have too much overlap.
Do you have literally hundreds of GB free on your scratch drive? Photomerge has been known to use that much. It used 91GB doing the above.
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Volume in drive C is C - NoelC4 SSD
Volume Serial Number is 00ED-C11E
Directory of C:\TEMP
11/20/2012 11:25 AM    68,719,476,736 Photoshop Temp267498815588
11/20/2012 11:27 AM    22,401,777,664 Photoshop Temp269252225588
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              0 Dir(s) 941,183,279,104 bytes free
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-Noel

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I am in the market for a new computer. The main use for it will be my amateur photography work using Photoshop.
Current Idea is:
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Message was edited by: DNB224
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I had a bad experience with nVidia. When I moved from XP to Vista I had a VERY expensive nVidia Quadro FX card, and I found out the hard way that they don't support older cards well at all, no matter how much you've paid. I futzed with it for months, then bought into "the other guys", at which point I got fast, rock solid reliable Windows operation - as it turns out, for a year and a half, then another 5 months on Windows 7 with no trouble. Lore has it ATI has better hardware too. All I can say is it works for me, and works well.
As far as I've been able to see Photoshop works equally well with ATI as nVidia. They use OpenGL which has been around on both platforms for a long while. Even if Photoshop CS6 uses OpenCL ATI is right there on the forefront with nVidia. I really like what AMD did when they bought ATI.
C: is RAID 0, on which I keep Windows and my data. I have a 3rd non-Raid 1 TB drive as D:, left over from a prior system, on which I put the Photoshop temp file. It's not screaming fast, but then CS5 doesn't seem to use the disk much. I just don't see the system waiting for the disk. Even opening huge files (I work with 1 GB .psd files in my astronomical image processing sometimes) is not slow.
Trust me, the first time you fight through a hard drive failure and spend days getting the system back in order (assuming you do backups) you'll wish you'd gone for reliability. A terabyte is a HUGE amount of data. Just doing backups and restorals to/from an external disk takes hours upon hours!
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