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Unwanted Photoshop temp files clog hard drive!
Name: Gail Date: August 12, 1999 at 21:51:30 Pacific
Comment:
When I use Photoshop to restore and/or retouch images, the average file size is about 40-60M. I discovered that my hard drive actually accumulates all the operations performed on the work file and stores the data in a temp file (PST1234.tmp) which takes up space and slows down my performance.When I try to delete it during the work, the deletion is denied. Photoshop itself has to be closed in order to delete these temp files. Today I had to delete 587M of temp files just to work on one image! This is a @$!%&! pain! I truly hope there is a solution out there. Please. ... any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Name: Chad Date: August 13, 1999 at 00:15:37 Pacific
Reply:
The only solutions I can think of is to A:uninstall whatever software you run the least to free up space or B:get another or a bigger hard drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chad Date: August 13, 1999 at 00:24:16 Pacific
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Oops! Bad solutions, sorry. It sounds like you need more RAM. When Photoshop saves transformed data of an image, it stores it into memory, however if not enough memory is available it will store the information on the hard drive in temp files.
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Response Number 3
Name: Jedi Knight Date: August 13, 1999 at 08:55:54 Pacific
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This really isn't a direct solution, but do you think maybe your image sizes are just a bit large? I used to scan a few things on an older scanner, not noticing the settings, and I would have these HUGE, 50 meg images. If you have an image over 100 KB, you really ought to find a new compression technique.
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Response Number 4
Name: browser Date: August 13, 1999 at 12:00:38 Pacific
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Look to Photoshop Software for your answers. If it were performing correctly, it would erase the temp files when finished with them.
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Response Number 5
Name: Charles McEvoy Date: August 17, 2000 at 10:22:50 Pacific
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