PS won't let me save because "Disk not Available"

This is the second time this has happened. Customer help had me delete a file in the library but I can't remember which file. Can anyone help me?

If it is the scratch disk full, you may try to delete .tmp / edit/purge/all. Or assign a scratch disk with enough space--if that's what you mean. But if it is disk not available, it's because of the disk permission? On mac, choose the scratch disk you want, press command I-> Sharing &Permission-> Ignore ownership on this volume. (IF that is the boot drive, ignore this suggestion. Don't do it.)

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I have given up trying to get Photoshop to work on the new external firewire drive, so this thread can die like Photoshop has been doing. Right now, I am not particularly thrilled with Adobe.
I have changed the scratch disk so it could be on any of the four drives, but the app that wouldn't open without the error has to be able to be opened to change its prefs ( catch 22). I also changed the ownership, but that didn't help. The drives are all HSF+.
I have now split apps over two internal 40 GB drives with Adobe and Apple remaining on the boot drive and all other apps aliased from the second drive, giving me a total of 41 GB free space. Data files have been relocated to the 500 GB firewire drive along with iPhoto files and iTunes and all archive and backup info on the 750 GB firewire.
I now think the problem is that Adobe does not allow a user to install a useable Photoshop on an external system drive (since it can work if opened from the internal system drive).
Yes, I know I have an older system, but it works, does the work, and has to do for now. Not everyone can afford the newest and best Mac every year!

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The permissions verification (and repair) functions of Disk Utility will not tell you whether a permissions problem is preventing Photoshop from using your non-boot scratch disk. That only checks to see whether directories and files have permissions which match the permissions that they were given at the time of creation or modification by Apple software installer packages.
My primary "scratch disk" is a non-boot volume. Here are the volume's permissions as seen at the bottom of a Finder Get Info window.

Could not open PS scratch file or initialize because disk not available.

I have a new MAC and am putting all of the adobe programs on the new machine. When opening PS the dialogue box gives the above error and will not open the program. I did see that I needed to diactivate PS on the old system. I did that and still get the error. Because it will not open the program I do not know what to do at this time.

Hold down Cmd+Alt+Shift while starting the program to reset the prefs and define a new scratch file location.
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Could not initialize Photoshop because disk not available

And it wont let me re-install PS. It seems to think it's already installed, which it is.
This is CS3.

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Every time I try to save something it only lets me save my file to the page it automatically shows me (my documents).
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