huge Photoshop temp files?
 

wtf? are 6 GB Photoshop temp files normal? my Photoshop is running ridiculously slow on big files(100 MB and greater, 100 layers and greater).

what are you designing that need to be 6 gigs?

...and 100 layers?! :helpme

Michelle Obama fakes?

100 layers is pretty normal for a decent design... a 100mb psd however doesn't sound right

it's a tour design - 100 layers plus is pretty normal for a graphically heavy tour design.

but a 6 GB temp file when that file is opened - i don't know if this is normal which is why I posted the question.

100 layers isn't anything..
100 megs isn't really all that much either..
must be your settings or system or something...


try some of the stuff here..
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/to...s-performance/

and the temp files are there for a reason...
they should go away when you close photoshop... unless you crash.

i understand that but a 125 MB psd file creating a 6 GB temp file? that's an insane amount of space - why would that much space be required by Photoshop? my main drive is down to 11 GB free space - so I'm wondering if that's why Photoshop is running so painfully slow, if it's creating a 6 GB temp file that leaves only 5 GB free on my C: drive.

thanks for the link :)

Even if you have extremely fast disks writing a 6GB temp file is going to take around a minute so no wonder it's slow. :)
Something is wrong...

does it happen every time or just with that file? if it's just that file, then take a look at the DPI, you may have some high DPI setting (which you don't need at all). If you have a slave drive, use the slave for memory swap. And in Performance > Memory Usage add as much RAM as you can.

Although not the most common case, a big design with so many layers, even more if they're photos, could add to 6Gb temp files if you don't have enough RAM. Then again, I've a feeling you must have your design at 300DPI

how much ram do you have?

along with harvey's suggestions you might try changing your scratch disk settings to a different drive (external) or add/activate a drive in the scratch disk list that has more space.

4 GB, though WindowsXP i've always heard can only use 3 GB of RAM

i opened up another version of this file - 75 MB and about 130 layers

i use a second internal drive for the primary scratch drive

look at the temp file on the secondary internal drive for this psd i opened

http://www.bratcash.com/psd_tempfile.gif

As stated before, your temp files should be deleted automatically by photoshop unless you crash. If you do, just delete the temp files before you go back into photoshop. I work with really large format files all the time (I print large format art prints) and 6gb files are not uncommon at all. Like someone else said you might want to point your cache to a different drive, or an external drive. Pick the fastest one/biggest one and use that. No fear, I use to have a really bad crashing machine and came across the same thing one day.