


As I mentioned earlier, this may be caused by more than one issue so we have to do a little investigating and hopefully get rid of this annoying error once and for all. Solutions to this error include purchasing latest version of Photoshop, saving as different file type, saving “as copy”, saving to a different disk or partition, not saving to Documents, setting correct file system, error checking your disk and others listed. Let’s now explore all the possible reasons and find a solution for you so you can get on with work. If you are seeing the message “Photoshop could not save because the disk is full”, even when you have sufficient space on your hard disk, it can be due to multiple reasons. It just keeps going.Many photographers make use of Adobe Photoshop for all their editing work, and any issues with the program can have a huge impact on productivity. As a result, Photoshop can work with file sizes orders of magnitude bigger than other applications, without crashing or freezing. Other applications have to rely on OS paging, which is much more limited and hits the ceiling pretty fast.

What sets Photoshop apart from other applications is its sophisticated memory management system that allows a separate scratch disk. It has to move massive amounts of data around, much more than any RAM you may have installed, and that data has to go somewhere. It has to do with raster image editing in general. This has nothing as such to do with Photoshop. If you get "scratch disk full" messages, your scratch disk is full and you need to provide more.

It's always easier to work with reality than banging your head against it in denial. I started with Photoshop 6.0 in 2001, and we needed scratch disk space then too. You needed scratch disk space relative to the file sizes you were working on.
