Adobe Community: Message List - "Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

Re: "Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:32:13 GMT

By far the easiest solution is to upgrade to photoshop elements 10 which has no problems with big hard drives and has some new features you may like.

It's available for a thirty day trial.

Here are a couple things you can try which might work:

Option 1: Just after double clicking on the pse 2 shortcut press the Ctrl+Alt keys and keep holding the keys until you get the scratch disk preferences dialog

then choose your recovery partition as the First. This would only work if you have a recovery partition or another smaller hard drive installed that you can use as the scratch disk.

(i don't have a recovery partition on this computer)

Option 2. Shrink (shrink volume) your present hard drive down to 1 tb

Option 3: If you have windows 7 pro or ultimate you can use virtual xp (downloaded from microsoft)

Re: "Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:01:16 GMT

The reason photoshop elements 2 is giving that message is you have a hard drve bigger than 1tb otherwise pse 2 would run fine on windows vista, 7 or 8.

Versions of photoshop elements 2 and 1 can't read the hard drive if it's over 1 tb. Later versions of photoshop elements have no problems with big hard drives.

Re: "Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:07:38 GMT

Photoshop Elements 2? If you have a new computer, Elements 2 is not going to be compatible with the latest version of the OS.

Re: "Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:24:17 GMT

Sometimes this problem is resolved by re-setting the Editor Prefs.

Hold down the Ctrl+Shift+Alt keys and simultaneously click on the Edit button on the welcome screen. Release the three keys and look behind the welcome screen by closing it. Or hold down the keys whilst double clicking on PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe or the desktop icon for the Editor if you have one.

You should see a pop up box with the words: Delete Adobe Photoshop Elements Settings File?

Click on Yes

Then wait whilst Elements rebuilds the preferences.

"Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full."

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:20:21 GMT

"Could not initialize photoshop because scratch disks are full." This is the error message that pops up when I try to open my Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. I just installed this program on my new HP Pavilion Model h8-1214, which has 1.8 TB of space with 10.0 GB of RAM. I have read forums on this problem, but they tell how to fix the problem through Photoshop. How do I fix the scratch disk settings without being able to open Photoshop? Please help me with this problem for the Adobe Support team will not even answer my question..

Thanks.