CS2 Scratch Disks Full error

OK, I'm running an XP Pro x64 Dell here with 4GB of RAM, and two 160GB SATA HDD's. My C: drive has about 146 Gigs free space, and my D: drive has about 80 Gigs free space. This morning I started getting this error telling me that I could not complete an operation because the scratch disks are full.

I checked my setup, and I had C: defined as the first scratch disk, so I switched it to D: and restarted. Same deal. All I'm trying to do is crop a PSD file. No history in the buffer, no other activities under way. Open file, crop. No dice.

While Photoshop CS2 is running, I opened the Windows File Manager and checked the D: drive's properties. Sure enough, it showed no free space! I shut off Photoshop, and rechecked D's properties - 80 Gigabytes of free space available! That's GIGABYTES, not Megabytes. The PSD file is only 45 Megs, so I cannot fathom what Photoshop thinks it needs over 80 Gigs of space for.

I went in and changed a few settings; lowered History states to 10, Purge All, put the scratch disk back to C:, lowered Cache Levels to 2, Raised memory allocated to Photoshop to 100% (2786 Megabytes), and still I get that message. What the hell has changed since yesterday?

Anyone have any other ideas?

Steve

Just to confirm you don't have the PS browser up and running do you, It sucks memory and other system resources until it is done providing previews. I can't run a lot of stuff while that is going.

Failing that you may have corrupted file or something else.

You have shut you computer all the way down and back up also yes?

That's the limit of my trouble shooting ability for PS.

Yeah, Bridge is not running, and I've rebooted numerous times. Someone suggested that there may be a pile of temp files so I searched for those and couldn't find any on either of my drives. Looking at the forums on NAPP it is apparent that this is a weak spot for Photoshop - dozens of messages about this error message, but not a lot of help.

Found the problem. Operator error. Always look for the obvious first!

I was trying to constrain the crop to a square, and entered the height and width as 2336 - why does Photoshop always default to INCHES! Once I changed that back to px for pixels things got a lot happier around here.

I guess it would have been useful to get an error message that had a tad more meaning, but in the end, it was my error....

Did the same thing with a crop. Had the right dimensions but stuck 300 DPI in there for good luck. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I have done the opposite. Typed in 12 x 18 thinking "inches" and the program was defaulted to pixels. Looked all over for that damn image. It was a little bitty square . . .

Just had the same thing happen to me - 800in not PX..... Grrrrrrrrrrr

Thanks to this post I saved myself some heartache...... will write that in my book of "not to forgets"