Scratch Disk is Full

When I try to crop a picture, I am getting an error message that says my scratch disk is full. I have ample space left on my hard drive, so how can I correct this issue?
Thanks,
Jennifer Laraia
Message was edited by: PECourtejoie (email address removed to avoid spam)

Hello!
I don't know what version of Photoshop you are using (I'll post an example with Ps CS5, but it is similar in other versions), but I know a possible cure: check the units of the crop you are trying to perform on the image:
Are you sure that you want to crop it (for instance) 800x600 INCHES, multiplied by 300 PPI? (creating a 144 megapixels image!)
Set the unit to pixels, and you won't get that warning anymore, or change the PPI value to a smaller value.
What happens exactly? Unlike a real world crop tool, Photoshop's can be used to increase the dimensions of a document, and cropping a 1280x720 pixels document in the way the crop tool is set in the first example would create a 24.000 x 18.000 pixels one!
When you use the crop tool, it is also possible to make the document bigger by dragging the crop tool boundaries to the outside of the document. (make sure in this case that you increase the number of pixels to account for it.)

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Solution suggested by PECourtejoie.
Issue: When you try to crop an image in Photoshop and enter width, height and resolution values in the crop options, you receive the error that the scratch disk is full and are unable to crop the image.
Details: If you leave the crop options blank, you can crop the image successfully. This usually occurs because you left a resolution target in the options for the crop tool and it is attempting to resample your image to something bigger than your scratch disk can hold
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1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Rulers (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Units & Rulers (Mac OS).
2. Select a measurement unit for Type under the Units section of the Preferences dialog box. For example, select Pixels.
3. Click OK.
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