What does scratch disk full mean? My photoshop elements 2 won't initialize.

What does scratch disk full mean???

If your scratch disk were really full, it would mean that there's not enough space left on your hard drive for PSE to do its calculations. But usually that error message means your hard drive is too big. PSE 2 can't see a 1 GB drive, for instance. It wants 750MB or less. If you use windows you can possibly get around it by partitioning your hard drive, if you think it's worth it. There's no way to make PSE 2 run on a current mac.

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