Scratch disk on Adobe Photoshop?

Okay, this is really getting me frustrated. Whenever I try to get onto Adobe Photoshop, it says 'Photoshop cannot initialize because scratch disks are full.'

Please help!

(BTW it seems whenever I get rid of the fill patterns in Adobe the problem settles, but seeing as I cannot even get it to start up, I cannot get rid of the fill patterns.)

Photoshop is a memory intensive application. The scratch disks are parts of your hard drive that are used specifically if you run out of RAM, but since Photoshop takes so much up, but since you don't have enough RAM, it writes over to the parts of your hard drive.

I think there is a way to section off more disk to be used for the scratch drive, but I'mnot entirely sure. When you get rid of the fill patterns though, it frees up some space on the scratch drive and you can use it again.

You might want to install more RAM if you can afford it (it isn't really expensive, surprisingly) or try to clear some of the memory from the RAM. You might be able to restart the computer, and then open up JUST photoshop. That might work as well.

I hope my suggestions work!

You can select the drive Photoshop uses as a Scratch Disk in Edit>Preferences>Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks, and you can modify Photoshop's Memory limit in Edit>Preferences>Memory & Image Cache (Names may vary depending on your version - I'm going by CS2).

Photoshop's settings are stored here. Deleting the relevant file (Patterns, I guess) might help.

%HOMEPATH%\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop