Scratch Disk in InDesign CS2??

["Technical" Terry]

Anyone know of scratch disk settings in InDesign? Can't find anything. When working on large files with many pictures, I often get warnings about low disk space. My primary drive only has about 800MB available, but I don't intend to add anymore software and all files are stored on separate drives.

[PrintDriver]

No scratch disk settings I know of...

800mb, maybe, but probably not in one big block. If you don't have a block big enough to handle the file, you will get that message.

You may need to defrag (yes even on a mac) with one of the utility softs available out there.

[urstwile]

InDesign doesn't use scratch space. Sounds like your virtual memory is kicking in also. Which will eat up hard drive space while it's being used. Maybe quit out of all other programs while you're working on that especially large file, which is probably memory intensive and using more RAM than you have available in system memory.

[The_Black_Knight]

Anyone know of scratch disk settings in InDesign? Can't find anything. When working on large files with many pictures, I often get warnings about low disk space. My primary drive only has about 800MB available, but I don't intend to add anymore software and all files are stored on separate drives.800 megabytes is far too little free space to have on a hard drive if you're running any modern operating system (be it Mac OSX or Windows). As mentioned earlier, the system itself uses the hard drive for virtual memory, which can cause problems when there is less than one gigabyte of free space on the drive.

From what I've read, it's recommended that you keep at least 10%-20% of your hard drive free. If you can't do this, then you need to buy a bigger hard drive, or clear some files off of the one you have. If you add more RAM to your system, it can also help reduce the amount of virtual memory that the operating system uses, but 800 MB is still too little free space.

And no, InDesign doesn't have any scratch disk settings.