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Recover from a missing Photoshop scratch disk Apps
Against Photoshop's advice, I've set an external hard drive as my primary Photoshop scratch disk. But when I recently left my external drive at home, Photoshop refused to start -- it displayed an error message that read "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available," without an option to change scratch disk. Clicking OK closed Photoshop.

Thankfully, as it is with many things Mac, keyboard shortcuts work wonders. Holding down Command and Option while opening Photoshop allowed me to change the scratch disk's storage location.
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Recover from a missing Photoshop scratch disk
Authored by: osxpounder on Nov 12, '08 11:51:19AM

Are you talking about Photoshop CS4, or an earlier version? I guessed CS3, but I tried setting an external scratch disk, then restarting PS after ejecting that disk. PS starts for me, though, without complaint.



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