Scratch Discs are too full?

I am working with Final Cut Express HD. I have been capturing film for about 3 wks and haven't had any problems yet. Anyway, today, all of a sudden I get a message saying that my current scratch disc drive(s) are full. What gives? I am not very good with this system yet, but i am pretty sure that I have not used 500GB yet. Maybe I need to allocate more space for this project? Not that I know how to do this. If anyone has any tips, I would really appreciate them.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2) External Drive Lacie 500GB

I have about 500 MB left. I don't understand b/c I have downloaded the same amount of video this year as I did last year. last years project with editing, rendering and everything else only took up about 4-5 GB. This years project is taking up almost 450 GB. Any ideas why?

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I just downloaded this software on my Mac and I am captuing HD video from a Mini HDDV tape camera. I got a error message half way while captuing video
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How so? Final Cut Express has never been downloadable and was discontinued over 18 months ago. Are you sure you didn't actually download Final Cut Pro X?
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Hi Alan 12,
What operating system are you using?
How much space is left on your hard drive and what is the size of the hard drive that photoshop 7 is installed on?
The usual reason for that message on modern computers is that your hard drive has more than 1 TB of free space
and since photoshop 7 came out before such large hard drives were common, it can't read the large amount of
free space and gives the message about the scratch disk being full.
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB free on the startup volume for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data.
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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Rosa

Hello! The hard disk is full message indicates that your main disk is full or nearly so. The space can be taken up by pictures, music, by other data or by temp files created by Photoshop or by temp files created when burning a cd/dvd for instance. Photoshop preferences determine where Photoshop writes its temp files to. The undo and step back commands in Photoshop are possible because it saves a temporary file to refer to. If you have a lot of data on the main disk you should strongly consider a second disk as a place for Photoshop to write it temp files to. If you fill the main drive up to capacity with regular files or with temporary files the result will be the same...ie the system will be brought to it's knees as the space it needs to operate is too small. Either free up space on the main drive or add another drive to use as a disk for temp files. You could install another disk and then partition it with one partition to serve as a backup and another as a "scratch" disk. Scratch disk only menas that's the space is for "scratch" or temporary files. Tom

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I just tried to open a few of very large image files (9GB in total) and when I did I got the message "scratch discs full". Now I understand why that happened, but it seems to have eaten a whole load of disc space that wont come back. I've since closed photoshop, restarted my Mac, etc. but about 10 GB is still used up where it wasn't before. I can't locate any temp files anywhere (prefs only tells me the scratch disc is my Mac HD, not which folders it's in). Can anyone help me with this? Where are Ps temp files usually located on a Mac? I need those 10GB back!
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Hi again Chris (or anyone else who cares to contribute),
My Mac's HD space continued to disappear and I have now, finally, located the cause (I think). I checked the system log (Stystem Profiler/Software/Logs/system.log) which was itself 4.5 GB in size (too large I think?). However, when I went to the file location (/var/log/system.log) I also noticed that the "asl" folder (in the same folder as the system log) was 20 GB in size!! Having read a few forum posts about similar issues, I took the risk of deleting both the system.log and the majority of files in the asl folder. This seems to have worked a treat (I now have 25GB returned to me).
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When i try to open Photoshop 7.0 I get a message "the search discs are full" and it will not open. Help?

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Trying to work on Photoshop and I'm getting the message, "scratch disc is full".

Ultimately here is the deal. Like OS X and Windows do at the system level, Photoshop will grow a virtual memory scratch file on your hard drive if you don't have enough RAM to do what you are trying to do.
That means, step 1 in preventing the scratch file is to put more RAM in the Mac so that Photoshop doesn't run out so fast and have to shove data off to the disk to make room.
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You entered a resolution in the crop settings, and Photoshop is now resampling the cropped area as you instructed -- creating a document too big for your scratch disk. Take the resolution out, or reset the crop tool.

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