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Photoshop CC 2018: Seems to "eat up" spare HD space again
I have just updated to the latest Photoshop 2018 and have been working on photos all day. I noticed that my free HD space has "shrunk" by about 40GB in a matter of a couple of hours. I know I've seen that happen before, and it was fixed in one of the previous releases (I posted about it, then I actually thought it was Lightroom's fault).
I've used them both today, but I've now quit LR but still see the space being gone. My HD is almost maxed out, it got to just a few GB's of spare space.
Please investigate ASAP
Mac OS 10.12.6
I've used them both today, but I've now quit LR but still see the space being gone. My HD is almost maxed out, it got to just a few GB's of spare space.
Please investigate ASAP
Mac OS 10.12.6
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While I doubt Photoshop is holding 40GB of data in clipboard, it does continue to use RAM until the app is quit and relaunched (when it needs more, otherwise it'll re-use the RAM it already has allocated). All RAM that's used by PS is also mapped to your hard drive which would explain some of the disc usage you're seeing.
It would really help if you could describe your workflow. What exactly are you doing with images? Are you copying data/selections and pasting them into other images? Any information would be helpful so that we can try to replicate what you're seeing here.
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Thanks for the quick reply. In this current session, I wasn't doing much of copy/paste, except for one small section of one of about 20 images I edited. I was simply re-saving a bunch of my TIFF files with a compression (I had them all uncompressed). I have photoshop running now again, with about 7 images open, doing the same thing, and my HD space went down by 20GB now. I realize that the RAM used maps to HD space, but I don't think my usage should equate to 40GB of hard drive space. Here are some memory and HD stats as of right now
Let me know if I can share anything else that's helpful.
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