Critical Disk Space Warning

[Robert Boire]

I occasionally get the attached warning.

Problem is... disk space is not critically low. It is telling me to free 20MB and I have 1.6TB available.

Thoughts anyone?

Robert

[john beardsworth]

I've not seen any other reports of errors in this feature. So let's see a screenshot of the F drive confirming that it does have as much free space as you say. Is it being used for Photoshop scratch disc space, temporarily filling up?

[Rhossydd]

Could this be a warning of a lack of continuous disk space ? If it's a spinning HDD have you tried defragging it ?

[PeterAit]

Maybe just ignore it. Attend to your backups, of course, and see what happens down the road.

[Robert Boire]

So let's see a screenshot of the F drive confirming that it does have as much free space as you say. Is it being used for Photoshop scratch disc space, temporarily filling up?

Ok, well here is the screen shot.  No, I am not using Photoshop.

I have been generally ignoring it. Nothing bad seems to happen but it is somewhat disturbing.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It could still be a defragging issue, as Rhossydd suggested. The pie chart only shows amounts of used and unused space,; it isn't a map of fragmentation.

[langier]

Another factor is if this is your only drive or is a scratch-disk for Photoshop or other memory-intensive software. Photoshop wants to grab a chunk of your disk drive to use to spool the pages and history states as you work on your image. You may need to change the scratch disk hierarch in your PS preferences settings.

Otherwise, the rule of thumb I was told years ago is to keep at least ten percent of your hard drive free just to keep the thing from having issues when you use it.

[Alan Klein]

My single hardware drive is split into two virtual drives - C and D.  not sure why it does this.  But maybe that's a reason for your error.