Scratch Disk is Full when it shouldn't be ?

Hello Anybody who can help !
To make room on the hard drive I constantly burn Photographs
to disk, which usually works. I have recently removed about
100 photos, but it still keeps saying "The Scratch Disk is Full"
Is it full or is it just confused ?
I intend to have a second hard drive attached soon, but until
then is there away round it ?
Thanks very much
From Nick

Hi Nick,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
In order to run properly MacOS X requires at least 1.5 GB of free hard disk space at all times, a little less if you have plenty of RAM (i.e. 2 GB or more)! As donnie already pointed out there has to be additional space if you burn optical media.
Therefore the requirements for free hard disk space are these:
If you burn CDs: 1.5 GB + 700 MB = 2.2 GB
If you burn DVDs: 1.5 GB + 4.8 GB = 6.3 GB
If youburn DVD-DL: 1.5 GB + 8.7 GB = 10.2 GBs
Please be aware that less hard disk space may lead to loss of data and may also render the system unusable.

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