Running out of hard drive space

[lou_hosta@adobeforums.com]

As I use Photoshop 7.0.1 on my 1GHz mirrored door drive Mac with 1.75 GB of DDR SDRAM, I run into the following problem. I begin to loose space on my hard drive. Even after quitting PS; I delete the trash, and there is still an unacceptable amount of hard drive space missing. If I log out or reboot I then recover the missing hard drive memory on my hard drive.

I remember having this problem once before in an earlier version of PS and I was able to fix it with an update or something, but I can't recall exactly what I did.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks,
Lou

[Chris_Cox@adobeforums.com]

What OS version?

How much disk space is available?

It sounds like you just don't have enough disk space OR the OS isn't correctly cleaning up the scratch files (which was a known bug in certain Mac OS releases).

[lou_hosta@adobeforums.com]

My OS is Panther 10.3.2. I have about 18 GB of disk space left. I seems like my scratch files are not being correctly cleaned. Any idea how to fix this?

[Chris_Cox@adobeforums.com]

Whenever you launch Photoshop, it cleans up any leftover scratch files.

So, I don't know what you're seeing exactly.

[g_ballard@adobeforums.com]

[lou_hosta@adobeforums.com]

After using PS for a while I'll have 15.55 GB left on my hard drive. This number stays the same after quitting and restarting PS. After logging out and logging back (or rebooting ) I'll then have 18.1 GB back on my hard drive.

This was the exact problem I had with an earlier version of PS and/or Mac OS. I remember it being docmented by others and eventually either Adobe or Mac (I believe it was Adobe) came out with a patch and fixed the bug. I vaguely recall a fix was put out by someone on this forum before the official fix was put out by Adobe. Had to change something using the terminal or NetInfo Manager or something like that.

Anyone else see the problem described in this thread?

[Steve_Vespucci@adobeforums.com]

Chris Cox is your Adobe connection Lou, give him as much info on what's going on as you can.

I personally haven't seen the problem since version 6 I think it was, or maybe 5.5.

[Chris_Cox@adobeforums.com]

lou - that sounds more like the OS paging file is taking up some space, which is normal.

No, there was never a problem like you're describing other than the MacOS bugs that failed to remove scratch files after rebooting.

[Scott_Byer@adobeforums.com]

Yup. Normal. OS X doesn't overcommit paging space, which means that for
all the memory on the system that gets allocated (even if it's going to stay
in RAM), the paging file is grown just in case that memory needs to be paged
out. The paging file is never shrunk, except at boot time, where it starts
empty again.

-Scott