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hard drive space going mega fast!


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Ryuneo

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Hi

I desperatly need some advice on my hard drive. I have 2 hd`s one 160gb and one 15gb. my 15gb is down to just 98mb again. last week I cleard space for an extra 3gb and just a week later its down to 98mb again! Is windows saving files without me knowing? I only save work on my 160gb. please help as large PS files are taking ages to load.

many thanks

Ryan
 
Ryan what drive is photoshop on?

It should NOT be on your OS drive. Either that, or you should at least point its Scratch disk to your 160gig drive. Otherwise, this will cause various problems; one of which is memory related.

Check the drive where photoshop has been storing its Scratch disk swap file. Sometimes it forgets to delete that when it's closed.
You'll find the file at the root of the assigned Scratch disk drive.

If your C drive is continually filling up for no apparent reason, check in the C:\Windows\Temp folder. Delete whatever you find in there. Also... clean out your Temporary Internet Files folder as well. IE's default space usage for the browser is set to 50mb. WAY more than is needed or reasonable. Go into prefs and drop that down to 5mb.
disregard this if you don't use IE anymore

And one last possible cause... you have a Trojan. Scan your system with a reliable Trojan finder/remover program.

Hope that helps.
 
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