Scratch Disk?

[DAN V]

While trying to open a picture, received an error message that stated.
"unable to open, scratch disk is full, try to free up some space"
What the heck is the scratch disk and how do I free up space.

Thanking you in advance

 

[Ken Blake]

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Virtual Memory or page file space. It is a temporary
disk. Your "space" should be equal to 1 1/2 times the
size of your RAM.

Although that's the default, it's a myth. It's terrible advice.

IOW (in other words) if your RAM is
256mgs then the scratch disk should be 384mgs, etc.

So if someone has 64MB of RAM (the official minimum for Windows
XP), he should have 96MB of page file? If your page file is that
small, the computer will hardly be able to run any applications
at all.

And if you have 2GB of RAM (more than almost anybody needs), you
should have 3GB of page file? That's almost certainly far more
than is needed, and is just a waste of disk space.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Also note that "scratch disk" seems to be a term used by the
particular application the OP is using, and not the Windows page
file.

 

[erpara]

Although that's the default, it's a myth. It's terrible
advice.Actually that's not the default - the default is a
variable size page file.

So if someone has 64MB of RAM (the official minimum for Windows
XP), he should have 96MB of page file? If your page file is that
small, the computer will hardly be able to run any applications
at all.

If you have 64 MB RAM using Windows XP then of course
your computer will hardly be able to run any programs.

And if you have 2GB of RAM (more than almost anybody needs), you
should have 3GB of page file? That's almost certainly far more
than is needed, and is just a waste of disk space.

--
Ken Blake
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If you have 2GB RAM, then hopefully you have it for a
reason, like high memory intensive applications, in which
the 3 GB page file would be very useful. If you don't
need 2 GB, then why did you buy it?

Just some friendly comments : )