SCRATCH DISK HELP...

Don't know if this is possible or not.
I have a project that is stored on an external hard drive. The capture scratch, media files, and project file is stored on this drive. I am using several workstations to work on this project. I am trying to figure out if there is a way to make the worstation default to my external drive once my project is opened on it. Any changes I make to the project that use the capture scratch, ( render files, new footage, ect..) are stored on the systems default capture scratch. I just want to work on the projects without having to change the workstations default scratch disk.

Tom,
The way FCP works is that the Scratch Disk settings are global (apply to all projects the same). While I would love to see FCP work the other way, where each project contains its own settings for this, that isn't the way it is now.
I suspect that each workstation has its own install of FCP. That's where those settings are retained. To get each workstation to recognize your external drive as FCP's scratch disk, you'll need to have the drive mounted, then set it that way for that workstation's copy of FCP. Do that for each workstation and you should be good.
Of course, any other projects will be affected.
-DH

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FCP scratch disk help

Hi, I'm new to mac and fcp... it's a bit too much new stuff to grasp.. but I'm trying. could someone tell me why do I need to set scratch disk for? Also what other crucial things, if any, should I be looking at before I can start editing?

>Also what other crucial things, if any, should I be looking at
before I can start editing?
There are far too many to list here - but you should make sure your Scratch Disk is NOT your System Disk - otherwise your system will slow down (and you need everything to run efficiently for video editing as it eats power, memory and drive space)
As Shane said, do the tutorials and read as much as you can.
If you have a problem, search this Discussion Group before you post something elementary.
Good luck
Andy
G5 Quad. 8 GB. 250 & 500 GB Internal HDs. G-Tech G-Raid 1 TB. FCP 5.0.4 (Studio) Mac OS X (10.4.7) Sony HVR-Z1E.
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Work stoppage because of scratch disk error. The torture continues! Please help!

Hi, everyone:
I would greatly appreciate help.
In December, I began receiving the error message Could not initialize Photoshop because the scratch disks are full. I deleted all the large files from my hard drive, and the problem went away.
Now, I am working on a large Photoshop file (i.e., 585,155kb). I am working at 300 ppi for print reproduction, using multiple layers. I am opening each new image to be added to the master document in a separate Photoshop window. I set the resolution of each at 300 ppi, then crop and transfer to its new layer in the master file (using drag and drop). After I crop and transfer, I close the open window of the file I just cropped and transferred. No other programs are running. This seems to be fairly standard stuff.
All was fine (although very slow) until two nights ago. When cropping, I received the error Could not complete your request because the scratch disks are full.
Once again, I researched scratch disk error messages, and I came to the conclusion I had no choice but to increase my RAM. So, I upgraded from 512MB to 2 GIG. (I successfully opened my PC and installed the RAM myself, confirming it on the Properties window. A major success, as the RAM was costly, and difficult to find, so I saved some money and time by installing it myself!)
With great enthusiasm and excitement, I opened the master Photoshop file again and the next image to be set to 300 ppi, cropped, and transferred over to a layer. But, when I tried to crop, I received the SAME sickening message, Could not complete your request because the scratch disks are full.
How can this be? I have four times the RAM I had before, which was costly, and I expected Photoshop to work swift and smooth with this new, more efficient increase in RAM. I am simply bewildered.
I tried changing my Scratch Disks to C: rather than Startup, but then I received the error message You currently have Adobe Photoshops primary Scratch and Windows primary paging file on the same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshops primary Scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical drive.
More scratch disk torture.
None of this makes any sense, and, while Photoshop error messages are upsetting, they dont explain what you should do. I am not a programmer, and I am totally stumped.
I know that someone somewhere upgraded their RAM and still received a Scratch disk error too, so I hope someone can advise me on what I need to do next. I cannot continue my work and just spent a lot of money on RAM.
Thank you!

Hi, everyone: Thank you for your help with my problem. I appreciate everyones time and feedback, as well as the openness to help and explain (and further explain) what I do not fully understand. I learned a lot more, as Photoshop always introduces new things to learn and figure out. (One has to be part programmer to make PS work!) I appreciated the clear instructions and simple analogies too (for example, the head vs. suitcase was great).
Good news: The Scratch disk error has subsided for now!
I believe (although I am not certain) that the problem was something very simple after all, and I am embarassed. Only time will tell if this was really the culprit, for, if the Scratch disk error reappears later, it may be something else all together that is lurking in the background.
For now, it seems to have been a problem that Peter K.s advice helped me discover...
Peter's advice was to check the crop settings in the option bar for the common mistake of specifying pixels/cm rather than pixels/inch. My setting was correct (pixels/inch). However, I inadvertently used my pixel width number as inches in the Width setting, causing a MUCH bigger file than intended. When I changed the number, the Scratch disk error disappeared, putting me back in business! Thanks, Peter, for pointing me the direction that eventually revealed the problem.
Could it be this simple?
I kept working most of the night to test drive, free of the Scratch disk error for now! I hope the good fortune continues.
The lesson for others may be to check simple settings carefully first, before diving into the deep end of Photoshop.
Meanwhile, the new RAM is speeding up Photoshop considerably, so I feel like it was a good investment and will probably help safeguard against further Scratch disk errors, which I have had in the past. Also, Ive taken everyones advice to consider a dedicated, separate HD for Photoshop Scratch disk use. Ill plan that as a future/next investment. However, technical notes say an external HD isnt a good idea, but I dont have capacity for an internal HD, so it will have to be an external one. I would appreciate any words of wisdom here. Also, I still have to research SATA-II drives too (which are new to me) and ascertain if I can utilize one on my system. It may simply be too old for this technology, if it is new?
If interested, I also tried several things:
(1) Checking the space available on my HD again The pie chart indicated it was approximately half full (there was 46% free space, or 34.38 GB free space). I'll look for more to remove, but it seems reasonable to have 46 percent available, I think.
(2) Checking the need to DEFRAG The Analyzer said a DEFRAG was not needed, and, indeed, the color chart that plotted the files showed only a thin red line or two (red indicates fragmentation).
(3) Searching for more TEMP files to delete. I found 750 MB in TEMP files to delete, so, while not a lot, there were some still there. Previously I followed these directions to safely delete temporary Internet files: Ctrl Panel > Internet Options > General > Delete Files > Delete all offline content. But, when I navigated to C:\Windows\Temp, sure enough, I found more. Directly opening C:\Windows\Temp seems to be more effective. (I have done it that way in the past too, but lately I was trying to follow the "safe" way I had stumbled across recently.)
(4) Checking my Photoshop Memory Allocation, which was already set at 85% (which may be too high, so I may back it down later, but I did not change it for now). I remembered adjusting it some time ago, but I had forgotten by how much!
I also read the links that everyone recommended, as well as numerous other documents I found across the Web. Some introduced still more to learn/understand, of course.
Thank you once again. Ill resurrect or repost if the Scratch disk error haunts me again later, but, for now, a happy ending.

Adobe Photoshop Scratch Disk Full/Startup Disk Full error - PLEASE HELP

Dear ALL,
I have started to notice recently that when I run Photoshop CS on my Mac OSX Tiger, I am getting the Startup Disk Full error message. Never happended before.
Since my initial post I downloaded Macaroni (utility) and have run the daily/weekly/monthly backups, checked the /private/var/vm and /private/var/log and /Volumes. Nothing unusual there...
When I started getting this error I had 32GB left on a looked at my HD and I seem to have 32GB available on a 152GB drive. Now after deleting I have 76GB capacity left.
But when I tried to open a Photoshop PSD or TIFF file and do a crop I still get tge Startup Disk is Full error followed by the Adobe Photoshop error Scratch Disk is Full.
I am thinking of running the Disk Utility from the Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and doing a Verify Disk and Verify Disk Permissions followed by Repair Disk Permissions. I will be logged into the machine whilst doing this. Is there any danger in this as I have read elsewhere that I need to do this from a bootable volume. If that is the case how do I create a bootable disk/cd? If not then what is the cure to my Disk Full as surely there is now nearly 50% FREE!!!!!
Please help.
Max

PS will always use the boot disk for scratch to some extent even with an alternate primary scratch disk.
Be sure to turn off Spotlight as it causes problems.
4GB of RAM would be nice, I understand small files don't work well if there is more than 4GB RAM but large files will. OS X uses free RAM as cache and RAM disk before using disk drives.
How much RAM is allocated to PS? More RAM would help.
A dedicated lean boot drive helps. Install just what is needed for your work, use a separate drive for data, and yet another RAID volume for scratch.
When in doubt, backup with SuperDuper, and do an erase and then restore. Always backup before repairing; and never, ever, use an old version of Tiger CD/DVD - like 10.4.2 on 10.4.7/.8. Use "fsck" instead, or your emergency boot drive.
Also, give Applejack a shot and delete the cache folders and swap files from time to time to keep a system humming. CS/CS2 and Tiger benefit nicely from more RAM.

Help scratch disk is Full (mac)

Help please, Im using a macbook pro (10.8.4) and I can't use my CS6 because I keep getting the message scratch disk is full when it says I have 39.88g free on my hard drive

Fresh Effects wrote:
…I have 32.87GB free out of 83.23GB. I dont know what else I can delete
I would not even think of considering to attempt to run Photoshop on that machine. Sorry.
The rule of thumb I follow says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 300 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

I am getting a Photoshop CC "scratch disk full" error, but my scratch disk is C:/ and I have 40 gigs of free space - help!?!

Why is Photoshop giving me this error when I'm not working on files that are that big given the amount of free space on my computer? They're around 1.5 megs each, .jpeg files (not even PSD files) and I'm only trying to resize them to smaller, nothing fancy at all. Can't even open and do one without getting the scratch disk full error - but it's not full when I look at my C:/ drive (even in PS when I check the scratch disks under Preferences you can see the multiple gigs free).
Help anyone?
Thanks!
C

The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

Adobe Premiere Elements 12. Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable' Help

Adobe Premiere Elements 12. Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable' Help

Thank you for your help....
I'm Mac based with iMac that is about 3 months old, 8GB ram and 1 TB disk. OS 10.9 Maverick. I have a Lacie Thunderbolt 3TB as my main disk and a 4TB Lacie for back up...
a. When I create a New document I select where I want the scratch disc to be directed, I add the content and make edits, save the file and then render it. The rendering goes all fine to where I have directed it. As long as I do NOT quit the project or close the project I can create Blu-ray, DVD's, .mov files and all.
BUTTTTT if i quit and reopen that file I get these two alerts first alerts says "The scratch disks are write protected or unavailable." the second comes up whe I go to render "Invalid Scratch Disk path for video previews. Please change it to some other location."
I can not do anything because it can not render or can not write to disks so I can not make DVD's or data files. Could it be OS 10.9?.
FYI I have redirected my scratch to the internal Mac drive and same problem.
See enclosed attachements.
That is where I'm at. Is it a global thing on my internal, exteranal HD's, OS 10.9 or what.
Any ideas?
Jim

Error message:" Couldn't complete the command because the scratch disks are full" Ive try to fix this many times following different steps but none of them work and my disks equal to over 250GB. Please help.

. This error message pops up in Photoshop when i just wanna create a new plain white template. I have downloaded agentransack to track down the temp files and for some reason it says nothing matches the temp files.I have a couple of drives including 2 SSD's. I've try to fix this many times following different steps but none of them work and my disks equal to over 250GB. Please help. ( I am running windows 7 proffesional) 64 bit

Good day!
my disks equal to over 250GB.
What’s relevant is the space on the disk/s you have assigned as Scratch Disks – what are they (Phortoshop > Preferences > Performance > Scratch Disks)?
Regards,
Pfaffenbichler

Please help me setup CS4 scratch disks etc

Hey everyone
I just bought CS4 Premiere Pro and I really want to set it up correctly.
I am editing 1080p AVCHD video from my Canon HG21 HD Camera, but I need to find out how to properly set up scratch disks etc.
I guess you have the program running on one hard drive, the media that you are editing on another, and a scratch disk on another hard drive?
I don't totally understand how to set this up.
My current rig is an i7 920, 6gb 1600 mhz ram, 4870x2, 3 WD HDD's. The HDD the program is installed on is a 7200 rpm drive but I think the others are 5400? I'll have to check that out.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Harm,
Thanks for your reply! I just checked and all three of them are 7,200 RPM drives, I will set my projects and scratch disks as you advised.
Also just a quick question, I am using the following preset on Premiere Pro CS4 with my Canon HG21 Camera, but how will I know for sure that it's the correct preset to use with the footage that I will be using from the camera? Sorry it's a pretty amateurish question but I am really starting from the ground up and would like to get things right from the start:
AVCHD>1080p: AVCHD 1080p25
For editing AVCHD Formats recorded in 1920x1080 square pixels (non-anamorphic).
16:9 progressive-scan 1080p HD video at 25 frames per second.
48kHz audio.
General
Editing mode: AVCHD 1080p square pixel
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Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)
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Default Sequence
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Stereo tracks: 3
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Submix mono tracks: 0
Submix stereo tracks: 0
Submix 5.1 tracks: 0
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Regards.

Help, scratch disk problem

I moved my scratch disk to an external firewire drive. Deleated the old one in my hard drive. Now I can't open FXEHD. It wants to start but it wont open all the way. Can someone help.

What version of FCE is this?
First trash your preferences and repair permissions. Try to launch the application, not a project. If it doesn't open, try uninstalling and reinstall the application.

Need Urgent Help! RAM and Scratch Disk Problem

I was recently working on making a gigapixel panorama. I made the panorama in AutopanoGiga and rendered it as a .psb. I went to go fix some stuff on the file and the first thing I did was content aware fill. The panorama ended up being 4 gigapixels before cropping. So I wanted to try content aware fill on a small portion of the image. I am using a 12-core Mac Pro with 20GB 1333 MHz RAM. I have an SSD as my boot drive and four 2TB mechanical drives, none of which in a RAID.
When I first installed Photoshop on my Mac Pro, I went into the preferences to change the memory and scratch disk settings. The first thing I did was set Photoshop to use 12GB RAM. Then I went to the scratch disk and noticed that only my SSD was set up as a scratch disk. So I unchecked the activate box next to the SSD, activated all 4 other drives, and moved the SSD to the bottom of the list.
So I started content aware fill and saw that it would take some time. So I left and when I came back a little over an hour later, Photoshop gave me a message saying that the scratch disk was full and it couldn't complete the content aware fill. Why did this happen????? I deactivated my SSD and activated four separate 2TB drives!
I went on MacRumors Forums and asked some people, and the only advice I got was to reset my settings. I did that, redid my scratch disk settings, and it is still using my SSD as the scratch disk! Can someone please help??

CAF is processor and memory intensive... most of the flashy demos of this feature have been on much smaller images.
CAF has also been known to kick RAM errors when it simply farts and dies. Is CS5 fully patched?
Wear a helment when you try to hit your head on the ceiling.

Scratch Disk Desperate Help!!!

If anybody knows anything, or can research anything I can't find, I would appreciate it. As of a few days ago my computer got a lil virus, I had to system restore. Virus gone, BUT, seems as though my Photoshop kind of reset itself. Becuase when I opened it, the template was different (I used to have only 2 windows on the right, it reset itself to open with 4 windows) and when I used to create a new file the background was the transparent checkered pattern, and now it's just a plan white background, so something obviously reset.
THat's cool, no problem there. So I go to create a new photo, and I use a VERY simple too, I use the Paint Bucket to fill a 500x500 image, Photoshop has a lilttle load bar come up so it can LOAD to fill my little space, and if i let it sit, it will eventually say "Scratch Disk is Full".
Now, I've gone online to see how to fix that. I've found multiple FAQ sites. And this is what I've done to still no avail:
1. I've gone into Preferences and set the Scratch Disk location to my C:// drive that it previously was.
2. Set it so that 100% of my RAM can be used for Photoshop
3. Defragmented my C:// Drive
4. Searched for any ~PSD temp files, my computer said it found none.
And now I have NO idea what to do, and it's very very frusterating. If anybody knows anything else I could try, or knows a great FAQ website, or another Photoshop Forum I could go to, I'd be eternally in you dept.

Try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef4a07f/1
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.

Scratch Disk Location ticked on F: Drive but still on C: Drive? (PLEASE HELP!!!)

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Make sure the old Photoshop temp files are removed from you user id temp space when you close down Photoshop. If there are any still there delete then and start Photoshop Then look in your user temp space make sure there are no Photoshop temp files. My scratch space is on c: and this is what I see get created in my user ID temp space when I start Photoshop.

Scratch disk error plus canvas image error help

so i recently restored my computer back to factory settings .. so my computer doesnt even have any new downloaded app .. i download photoshop cs6 now im getting scratch disk errors ..which i dont see possible if my computer doesnt have anything on it (besides what it came with) my hard drive has 276 gb i only used 33 .. so why am i having this problem?? i made an external hard drive and that has 8 gb ... also its moving very slow .. also its telling me i cant make an new canvas size 1920 x 1020 with an resloution of 300 which i know is possible because i done it before so if anybody can tell me what im doing wrong or how i can fix this problem please .. i need photoshop for work . and this is impossible .. im using windows 7 toshiba

Without going into much detail, the scratch can grow to humongous sizes. In general, figure on 50 to 100 times or more the size of your largest file multiplied by the number of files you have open.
My preference is not to work with less than 200 GB of contiguous, unfragmented available drive space for scratch on a physically separate, dedicated, internal hard drive as my primary scratch disk.
Also consider that if you rely on your boot drive for primary scratch disk, Photoshop's scratch is sharing that space with the swap files of the OS.
That's one of the issues, and it can be be made much worse if you have a faulty drive. A badly fragmented drive would also be a big problem.
As for that external drive with a pathetic 8 GB of remaining available space, you should back it up, store it in a safe place, a get a new one. Any time any one of your hard drives gets to be 80% full or more, you are already in a heap of problem. With that little space left, you should make sure it's not being used even as a secondary scratch disk.
Hard drive real estate is very cheap these days.

Please help... "Could not initialize Photoshop becauae the scratch disks are full.

I am using Photoshop 7 on Windows Vista. I just bought a new computer and installed Photoshop (which worked fine on my old computer running XP). It installs correctly but wen I launch it I get the error "Could not initialize Photoshop because the scratch disks are full." Then Photoshop immedietly shuts down.
My C drive has 1.3 TB free, my D drive has 145 GB free and my E drive has 5 GB free. I've tried defragmenting all the drives and deleting any temp files.
I do not know why this is happening and would greatly appreciate any advice.
Thank you,
Brad

there's a bug in 7 that causes this on drives with more than 1 TB free. upgrade photoshop to fix it or temporarily fill the drive with garbage or partition it so the free space is less than 1TB.
a side note is that current upgrade policy only gives special pricing to 3 versions back. right now that's version 7. if you wait until cs4 comes out you'll be 4 versions back and will be out of the upgrade path. then if you want a higher version in the future you'll have to purchase a full license again. if planning on upgrading photoshop - ever - suggest you do it before cs4 ships.

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