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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.
 
Restart in safe boot (hold shift down when restart) then restart Photoshop and set pref
 
Thanks - didn't know how to do this with Mac.
Does that override or reset the Scratch Disk order in Pref's ?
 
it over rides any 3rd party software so you can startup without it being activated
 
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!
 
cool but only shift on a mac is needed but I guess the extra keys wont hurt lol
 
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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