Scratch Disk?

[Jake]

>-----Original Message-----
>While trying to open a picture, received an error
message that stated.
>"unable to open, scratch disk is full, try to free up
some space"
>What the heck is the scratch disk and how do I free up
space.
>
>Thanking you in advance
>
>
>.
>Virtual Memory or page file space. It is a temporary
disk. Your "space" should be equal to 1 1/2 times the
size of your RAM. IOW (in other words) if your RAM is
256mgs then the scratch disk should be 384mgs, etc.
Go here: Start/ControlPanel/Performance and
Maintenance/System/Advanced
tab/Performance/Settings/Advanced tab/Virtual Memory.
Change to your specs, click Apply and OK.

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Jake > typed:

> Virtual Memory or page file space. It is a temporary
> disk. Your "space" should be equal to 1 1/2 times the
> size of your RAM.


Although that's the default, it's a myth. It's terrible advice.


> IOW (in other words) if your RAM is
> 256mgs then the scratch disk should be 384mgs, etc.


So if someone has 64MB of RAM (the official minimum for Windows
XP), he should have 96MB of page file? If your page file is that
small, the computer will hardly be able to run any applications
at all.

And if you have 2GB of RAM (more than almost anybody needs), you
should have 3GB of page file? That's almost certainly far more
than is needed, and is just a waste of disk space.

--
Ken Blake
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[Ken Blake]

In ,
Jake > typed:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>While trying to open a picture, received an error message that
stated.
>>"unable to open, scratch disk is full, try to free up some
space"
>>What the heck is the scratch disk and how do I free up space.
>>
>>Thanking you in advance
>>
>>
>>.
>>Virtual Memory or page file space.


Also note that "scratch disk" seems to be a term used by the
particular application the OP is using, and not the Windows page
file.

--
Ken Blake
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[erpara]

>Although that's the default, it's a myth. It's terrible
advice.
>
Actually that's not the default - the default is a
variable size page file.


>
>
>So if someone has 64MB of RAM (the official minimum for
Windows
>XP), he should have 96MB of page file? If your page file
is that
>small, the computer will hardly be able to run any
applications
>at all.
>
If you have 64 MB RAM using Windows XP then of course
your computer will hardly be able to run any programs.



>And if you have 2GB of RAM (more than almost anybody
needs), you
>should have 3GB of page file? That's almost certainly
far more
>than is needed, and is just a waste of disk space.
>
>--
>Ken Blake
>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>.
If you have 2GB RAM, then hopefully you have it for a
reason, like high memory intensive applications, in which
the 3 GB page file would be very useful. If you don't
need 2 GB, then why did you buy it?

Just some friendly comments : )
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