I'm trying to use a SanDisk 256gb usb 3.0 thumb drive on windows as scratch disk and it's formatted as FAT32 and Photoshop 2022 will not recognize the drive in scratch disk preferences, so should I format the thunb drive to NTFS?
It may seem that an external hard drive is just the same thing as a thumb drive. But really, they are not. They just aren't made for that sort of heavy use. Without recommending it for this use, I note that Sandisk make a range of "Portable SSD".
this is purely misinformation. Nothing is different internally form a flash drive and an external hard drive. The only differences are physcial size and internal size. The format of a drive is the format of a drive. The vessel and sahpe that drive comes in mean literally nothign to your computer. This is simply an issue wioth the very unstable architecture of Mac OS. This dosnt happen on my PC
This is an old thread and you are very wrong. Most thumb drives aren't large enough to work as a scratch disk anyway. A USB-C SSD will run circles around a flash drive. Oh and the gratuitous shot at macOS is false, as well. :eyeroll:
So even if Adobe allowed USB stick/thumb/flash drives to be assigned as Photoshop scratch disks, that would be a very bad idea in terms of speed. Use a real SSD. The latest NVMe external SSD enclosures are almost as small as a thumb drive, but are much faster than a thumb drive, and can cost under $100 now.
I recently picked up two USB-C SSDs on clearance from Staples. 512GB and 256GB, both for about $35 plus tax. I haven't benchmarked them but they seem to work well plugged into my Thunderbolt 3 display's USB-C ports.
Even a 250GB system drive should be usable as pimary scratch disk, and even go a pretty long way, if you clean it out thoroughly and move everything possible over to external storage. That's always better than scratch on external drives.
Just remember to never save directly to an external drive. Save locally, then move. Having to rely on external drives is cumbersome in any case, but a few precautions make it at least workable and safe.
The user account accumulates a lot of unnecessary items. Start with Disk Cleanup in the operating system. This can be surprisingly effective. Next, for Windows there is a free utility called WinDirStat, which shows exactly what's filling up the drive and where it is. A lot of it can be deleted without harm. The outlined area here is the user account. Also, hibernation can be disabled, and then the big red blob here disappears:
I know the page says no thumb drives and the photoshop preferences won't even recognize the thumb drive as drive d: like my computer will show it as drive d: so yeah thumb drives won't work and the other poster said use a ssd drive with USB 3.0 because they are built differently and so did the adobe chat agree with that
I don't see the drive as an option in preferences, it says drive c: my main hard drive and there is no drive d: which is the usb 3.0 drive that is recognized in file explorer as well as recognized when I go to file>save or save as.. in photoshop. I think I went to format the thumb drive as NTFS on my computer , which is windows 10, and it has 2 ways to format the drive , quick way does the format in under ten seconds and the slow way which looked like it would take 12 to 24 hours to format at the rate it was going and I did quick format and it doesn't show up I'm preferences so maybe if I try to format it the slow way?
Also, I set up the preferences one time and it just totally ignored the memory error and lack of memory and was over clocking the memory or something because I did a test file of 2400 dpi by 11inch by 17 inch and then used gradients and filters and kept adding content into like 5 layers and it didn't mention scratch disks or anything, it just kept working and I don't know why it did that because I can't reset the preferences or performance the same but this photoshop is glitchy at startup everytime it will recognize the graphics or not, it's working alot better than last year
Quick format should be fine. If you navigate to your Photoshop.exe file (most likely found in this path - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022) right click that file and select "run as administrator".
That reminds me, I have to run photoshop as administrator everytime or it freezes or doesn't let me select menus, it's very glitch, not as solid as the old programs before 2010, no the quick format or the run as administrator don't work to have the drive recognized, I just buy a ssd drive for $49.99
If you have to do that everytime to open photoshop - there seems to be another issue you are having. I would not believe getting a new ssd would solve that? Can you explain more about your issue with photoshop freezing? there might be a root cause to solve there.screenshots can be helpful to to show us what you are seeing.
If I open photoshop without using run as administrator, the program opens and nine of the buttons or menus on the top will click open, it's like an invisible freeze or something, no access. Really, I'm trying it out since last year because it didn't even work last year at all. How am I supposed to use these programs to offer my professional design services when they don't work right? I have a 200 mbps internet connection and it has made a difference from the 5 mbps i had last year and I'm going to buy a better computer with 2 hard drives and either 16gb or 32 gb ram and Nvidia graphics card, but really I have to be able to use these programs and if Adobe has to switch to internet subscriptions then that's fine as long as it works then I will pay but being told that photoshop needs 2gb ram to operate then told recommended 8gb ram and well 6gb scratch disk but really should be 10-12 gb ram or recommended 20gb atleast , the recommendations are all over the place so might as well over do it but that's how adobe has always been.
It's not the required specs, it's a x64 processor but everything else falls below the requirements, so if I keep the pixel dimensions fo web, 72 pixels per inch, I can work on logos and stuff and I've ran it up to multiple layers, 34 layers and no problem, it has 4gb ram, 32gb hard drive, no graphics card it has Intel uhd 400 so that's probably why it can't open right
As, lumigraphics mentions, your issue is going to be that you do need a new computer to run full photoshop appropiately. Adding an additional scratch disk won't help you. It would be better to put that money to upgrading your machine or buying a new one.
Try uninstalling and reinstalling adobe. After uninstalling try clearing out any other Photoshop related content like libraries but make a backup copy before doing so. Once installed, try opening Photoshop again without running it as an admin. Then start copying over your libraries and presets over into the new folder from the fresh install.
I have a SanDisk external SSD 1TB and I have formatted it to "MacOS Journaled"but you can format it to NTFS since it's faster than the other formats. If you work between both PC and Mac then FAT32 is the way to go. Once you're done start up Photoshop then go to Preferences -- Scratch Disks and you should see your drive in the list. Click the check box and move it to the top of the list so Photoshop knows to use that drive first for the heavy lifting and make sure it's empty with no files saved on it to get the most out of it.
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I am running Photoshop CC on my MacBook Air with macOS Sierra. Every time I attempt to open Photoshop through any means, the following message appears: "Could not initialize Photoshop because the scratch disks are full", and Photoshop does not open. I tried clearing space from my Mac in general including several GB worth of apps and removing several cache files, but nothing seems to work. I also tried holding down the command and option keys to reveal the Scratch Disk Preferences, and it lets me select the Startup and MacIntosh HD. Again, nothing worked. Anyone know how to fix this message, and/or clear scratch disk space?
This is super late, but for anyone else who runs into this issue...Similar thing happened to me. Do you make new files by pixel size or by inches? I usually go by pixels (ex: 2500x3000 or something like that), but I apparently I had accidentally switched to inches and it would only let me max the numbers to 1000. Went back to pixels and it all worked out!
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