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Help! - I've wounded PS5


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Slyfi

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How can I reassign the scratch disks with PS5 closed??

I deactivated the Scratch Disk on my MacPro's System drive and reassigned it, in priority order, to the 3 other HDDs. Photoshop will not now restart and gives the following error messages: "Could not open a scratch file because the disk is not available". followed by "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available". Presumably PS5 is looking for the System drive?

I went back 24 hours in Time Machine expecting that to fix things but, alas, no change. How can I fix this - I working to a deadline and need to edit asap.

ps - its was sunny today in England and I'm still in shock!
 
Hmm... that's unusual to happend on a Mac...
This can be expected to happend in Win Vista (or win 7) if you haven't got your permissions managed. But as Steve suggests, resetting Photoshop to use the default C-drive as Scratch Disk and deactivate the others is a recommended fix. You will have to go into the Preferences Panel again and redo all your tweeks, but that's the cost of it.
 
Thanks - didn't know how to do this with Mac.
Does that override or reset the Scratch Disk order in Pref's ?
 
I have completely solved the problem with a Command+Option+Shift on reboot .... not a procedure (or indeed a fault) that I've heard of before.
Thank you all so much, it's very appreciated and only goes to prove that old dogs can learn new tricks!
 
JgraphNet said:
Thanks - didn't know how to do this with Mac.
Does that override or reset the Scratch Disk order in Pref's ?
Click to expand...

Anything you do in in Preferences Ctrl or Cmd+K gets reset, scratch disc options too I assume.
 
Yes it does, Steve. You have it in the latest of the "betas" I sent you... :)
Shift+Ctrl+Alt/Shift+Cmd+Opt restarts of PhS resets the entire Preferences Panel to default factory state.
Just didn't know how to boot Mac in Safe Mode.

Slyfi - drawback with resetting Preferences is that you have to redo all your settings in it.
 
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