Sharing Files - Scratch Disc

Does anyone know if you can run FCE on a network or a NAS? I'm trying to share files with one other person and want to store everything in a central location. That way we can work on the same files without transferring HDDs back and forth between desktops. I've read on the forum that I cannot/should not have my scratch disc on the server. Can I use a NAS? Does anyone have a solution to shared scratch discs/shared drives?

I've had moderate success with a variation of what you envision in a small lab environment using standard definition footage stored on a G5 XServe and workstations connected with gigabit ethernet. Capture is to a local hard drive, then media is transferred to the server. When there's not much network traffic, it works fairly well.

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    Use the identical path (including drive letter) for Media Cache,
    Preview Files and source media files on all machines.
    Premiere will look to absolute, not relative paths for these files.

  • "Could not open scratch file because disc is not available" Mac

    I recently changed the Photoshop (CS6) Scratch Disk choice from the default Boot Drive to one of the other internal drives in my MacPro (OS 10.6.8).
    When I restart Photoshop (CS6) I get the message:
    "Could not open scratch file because disc is not available"
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    and reset the preferences which allows Photoshop to come back.
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    Ignore Ownership worked. Thank you!
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    As for Terminal, I've had my hand held a couple of times while I went there and it was not a comforting experience.
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  • "could not open scratch file because disc is not available"

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    Hi,
    having the same problem here. We have 10 Mac Pro machines with OSX 10.6.8 and CS5 Photoshop 12.0.4. By now five of these machines have given the same error: "could not open scratch file because disc is not available" and "could not save ... because of a program error".
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  • Scratch Disc Full: Where are the temp files kept?

    Hi,
    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).
    As I said in my original post, this all started happening when I opened a few very big Photoshop docs (ones with layers). Do you have any idea what caused / is causing this to happen? I haven't opened Photoshop since deleting the asl files, but new ones still seem to be appearing in the asl folder. They are tiny (100KB at most) but I'm a little concerned I haven't fixed the problem. Any suggestions?
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    Jul 28 18:16:09: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: _initWithWindowNumber: error creating graphics ctxt object for ctxt:0x1152b, window:0xffffffff
    Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create context delegate.

  • "Other files" eating up disc space causing 'Scratch disc is full'

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        Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
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        Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
        http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
    7. Re-index Macintosh HD.
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    http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

  • How do I get files onto scratch disc?

    I seem to have FCP X set up so that it uses my scratch disc yet my main Mac drive keeps filling up as I work on projects. In the project hierarchy it shows the two drives that I have and my projects (events) are listed under my scratch disc.  Anyone have any suggestions?

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    In the Events Library, you can click and drag Events from one drive to the other.  This is the safest way to do this, so that the internal database of the Event updates to reference the drive it's on.
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    You can right click on Events and Projects to "Move to Trash", in order for the appropriate databases to update cross references.
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  • Gigabit for scratch disc?

    I have an old sawtooth w/ a sonnet 1.33GHZ PPC G4, PCI SATA card with 2 400GIG HDs RAID and a GIGABIT ETHERNET PCI card. I want to use that machine as a large scratch disc...I'm interested on other users' takes on this setup. Thanks in advance.
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    What bandwidth video are you intended to stream over the network to that RAID? DV? It's very likely this will not work - the TCP/IP networking protocols aren't designed for continuous media streams, and it's very likely you'll get constant hiccups and burps as you try to pour data onto those disks over the GigE (I'm assuming you're talking about using that machines built-in File Sharing capabilites, right?). However, there's nothing whatsoever stopping you from experimenting - report back on your progress. It might work at very low bandwidth using the RT codecs.

  • How to determine the scratch disc size?

    hello,
    once i was reading an adobe pdf "How to get better performance in photoshop cs5" - that was in 2009 or 2010, and may be outdated, but there was a calculation method
    to determine the size of a scratch disc. (similar calculation see below, if i can remember right)
    i am asking myself, how can i determine the correct size of an external SSD-scratch disc, only used by photoshop (completely empty):
    should i buy a 128GB or 256GB or 512GB SSD which is only reserved for photoshop?
    basic question 1 : i guess i should avoid to set the internal SSD as photoshop scratch disc, as it slows down everything?
    basic question 2 : in sense of maximum performance: better buy an external USB3.0 or thunderbolt SSD? will photoshop really use the extra thunderbolt speed when swapping data?
    secondary question:
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    -  set photoshop to 70% ram usage (from 32GB RAM)
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    for example:
    10.000 x 7000 px at 300dpi needs for one image layer at 16bit: 2GB RAM in photoshop cs6 or cc (just as a number), this may be wrong
    so lets take 2GB RAM and multiply with 10 image layers in my .psb file (16bit) = 20 GB RAM, and multiply with 20 adjustment layers (guess they need less ram, for one lets say 500MB) = 20GB + 10GB = this 16bit .psb layer file would need 30GB RAM, so when i have 32GB in my imac, i set cs6 or cc to 70% ram usage, it misses at least round 8-10GB RAM > can i guess that photoshop would swap these 8GB onto my scratch disc? or do i miss something important in my thinking?
    tricky thinking
    thanks for help

    station_two wrote:
    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 dont use HDD anymore only SSDs, both internal and external
    - i set history state to only 5 or 6, to improve performance
    - i set cache size to 4 and tiles to "big and flat" with 1028kb (there is no "big and much layers" option)
    - is this still the rule of thumb? i read it in 2009 , too, guess it was outdated, as cs6 and cc have improved codes in terms of performance?
    - if you say "50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open.":
    i will not open more than one document at same time to prevent performance lags, so lets calc like: dokument size in finder (you mean in finder or doc. size shown in photoshop?) = e.g. 5GB x 100 = 500GB, so my external scratch disc SSD, i would buy now, should be at least 500GB, USB 3.0 or thunderbolt ... maybe better thunderbolt, yes? with usb 3.0 i could gain 300MB/sec if thats enough for photoshop?
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  • What is a Scratch disc?

    Hi, My discs (80+120gb) are almost full, I sought (and gained) info on the expanding your Mac forum and noticed a thread that referred to using a disc as a "scratch disc" for Photoshop, I use Photoshop a lot and would like to know what scratch disc means and how one makes a Photoshop scratch disc.
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    I can dedicate the 120gb to Photoshop as the 80gb contains the operating sysyem.
    I am not the most computer literate person so easy English responses would be appreciated.
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    Hi
    The following article, courtesy of MacGurus, contains some useful information on improving Photoshop performance, although it's a little techy in places:
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  • How to Reformat the hard drive I use to edit with..."scratch disc"

    Today when I turned on my computer I got a strange message on the screen that basically said I need to back up one of my drives and format it asap. It also said the computer couldn't repair it.
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    Message was edited by: DVX100Shooter

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  • Error Message: An error occurred while reading files or writing files to disc...

    Why am I getting the following error: An error occured while reading files or writing files to disc.  The disc may be full or there may be a problem with the source media.  I am running PSE10 on a iMac using OS X 10.7.3, my Mac has a 1TB hardrive of which about 150GB is used.  I get this error when trying to delete a file out of the Organizer.  The software worked fine until I installed it on my laptop, also a Mac, and tried to share files.

    Hmm. What happens if you disable sharing, just as a test?
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  • What does it mean when I get the message "scratch disc is full"?

    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.
    Step 2 is to put the scratch file on another disk. This is why pros have often used desktop towers, because you can put multiple disks inside them. For example, system on one disk with lots of free space, photo library on another disk so it can grow freely, and another disk that is used exclusively to hold scratch files for Photoshop and other programs that need to do the same thing like Apple Final Cut. Splitting the data streams (system, file access, scratch) like this also speeds up the machine considerably since they're not all trying to use the disk at the same time.
    The way you put the scratch file on another disk is to go into the Photoshop prefs, click Performance, and assign one of your other disks as a Scratch Disk there. (Use a fast disk, not a network or USB 1.0/2.0 disk, and partitioning your main disk will not help.)
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    I used to use a PowerBook with an external monitor as a Photoshop machine, and plugged in a FireWire 800 external as a scratch disk. Even just doing that helped a lot.

  • Unable to set scratch disc

    I am suddenly unable to set my scratch disc to the internal G5 Jam 1Tb RAID set in my machine.
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    Ctrl-click on the drive on the desktop and choose get info.
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  • Photoshop scratch disc (SSD), thunderbolt or USB3.0?

    asking the adobe team photoshop engineers, if there is one?
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    240 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD
    960 GB OWC Mercury Accelsior SSD
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    Model Name:   iMac
    Model Identifier:   iMac12,2
    Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
    Processor Speed:   3.4 GHz
    Number of Processors:   1
    Total Number of Cores:   4
    L2 Cache (per Core):   256 KB
    L3 Cache:   8 MB
    Memory:   32 GB
    Boot ROM Version:   IM121.0047.B1F
    SMC Version (system):   1.72f2
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