http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help- An entire Lightstalkers thread via RSS/XML. en-us Using photoshop and trying to finish a project & the dreaded "Scratch Disks Full" message appears. Using a macbookpro with CS2. I have heaps of free space left, but even so I'm clearing the files and backing everything up. Do I need the de-fragment? Any suggestions for programs to run, download... It appears that I only have one internal hard-drive (I tried to change the start-up disk)... Any real world advice will be appreciated... Thanks in advance! Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:07 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help- Do you have an external hard drive to use as scratch disk? this can be helpfull until you can found the problem in your system. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:51:57 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112884 I do have an external drive Hernan, but everything I have read online said NOT to use an external drive as start-up. The external drive is nearly full. I am madly backing everything up now on dvds... Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:02:31 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112885 Hi George "Funky"- How do I create a new partition? And what is the best way to defrag? Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:09:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112887 OS X defrags automatically, how much free space do you have on your HD and what size files are you working with and how many open at 1 time? Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:24:15 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112889 Hi Nayan- 39.69GB free on HD... 20 MG grayscale files today... Opening between 1-3 at a time... Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:39:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112891 Reinstall Photoshop Tamara. And because you're running an Intel Mac you might even want to download a free demo of CS 3...I know you're rolling in cash and looking for something else to spend it on so why not.. :) Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:46:59 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112892 Photoshop is miraculously working again after many different remedies... Thanks for advice & if this happens again I'll follow your advice Wade and re-install photoshop. Thanks all for tips and advice! Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:13:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/scratch-disks-full-mac-help-#112893