A hard disk used as a work space to store data temporarily. In highly computational applications such as editing large images or video, the scratch disk is used to hold the data being edited. Having ...

When you edit photos and video, files are constantly cached to your internal drive by default, which can slow you down quite a bit. You can make your system run faster by caching these files to an ...

Will I get any performance gains by installing a second hard drive that's exclusively for Photoshop to use as a scratch disk? If I also set up that second hard drive to be the Windows swap file, will ...

The longer you use Adobe Photoshop and its plethora of tools and effects, the more likely you are to run into a scratch disk error. But don't panic: If you do ...

When you’re ready to boost your Adobe Photoshop skills, try one of these features to work some magic with your images. We start with what to do when your Scratch Disk fills up, then dive right into ...

To allocate a different scratch disk you need to visit Photoshop's preferences: Edit > Preferences > Performance and set the disk that you want Photoshop to borrow RAM from. When you visit this ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...