I can work for hours until suddenly I can't.

I have that available but it doesn't mean I'm using that many. I've tried to figure it out for years now, but to no avail. But, figured I would post and give it a shot. My guess is nobody will have any solutions and Adobe won't fix the issue since us gigapixel guys are one in a million. On that note, some of my drives are enterprise level SSD drives. Regardless, once you hit that scratch disk mystery hard limit, all work of any type and saving comes to a screeching halt and PS has to be shut down to recoup, with all extra drive space ignored. Then, sometimes you just plain forget to save. I try to remember to save often, but when you are saving files as big as mine, it takes forever and its hard on your drives. But this scratch disk full when there's ample room drives me crazy. There's other big frusterations/bugs, etc., with PS when working on super large images, but I've gotten used to those problems and they don't cause me to lose my work.

49 Xeon Gold cores, and a RTX 3090 with 24 GB of video memory. I have 448 GB of memory with Photoshop's allowance set to max at 365K GB. History states I have set to 1000 and have never hit my limit to the best of my memory. Pixel dimensions are often at or over 250000 X 25000 px. What is limiting PS from keeping on writing scratch files and filling gobs more of hard drive space? Is there some sort of hard limit in the code that says 'Nope, that's all you get for scratch! We don't care that you have ten other hard drives begging to be used.' You can purge, or change drives for scratch, turn one off, another on, in preferences, reset preferences, but nothing works. It would be fine if I could shut down PS and restart, but often the error comes as a surprise after I've been editing very large files for a while and then I can't save my work and lose it all.Īnyway, I've read various threads about scratch issues going back years and nobody seems to have an aswer to this specific big file type problem. Doesn't matter how I swap the different drives around. But PS thinks my drive/s are full after I've been at it for a while. I have many TERRABYTES of room on multiple drives for scratch. Has anyone who works on gigapixel sized images or other extremely large file sizes, found a way around the scratch disk full error you get even if you have tons of hard drive space? This isn't the usual newbie scratch drive stuff.

Scratch disks are full photoshop 7