But Photoshop also uses massive temporary cache files, many over a gigabyte each, which dont always go away as they should when you close the program.

But that doesnt even touch the space that Photoshops temp files can eat up.

Bigger and more frequent projects exacerbate the problem; Ive seen my own Photoshop temp files eat over 50GB of space.

And the worst part is that the program gives no indication of how much junk its accumulatingyoull have to manually search for the files (or use a tool like SpaceSniffer ) to discover the real impact to your storage.

So Photoshop saves a lot of your work to local scratch files.

The files are supposed to be deleted automatically when you close Photoshop.

If you frequently work with large Photoshop projects, this means the files can be big in both size and number.

Some users can fill up their entire hard drive with temp files without even realizing it.

If this is a problem for youor if you just want to do a quick cleaningfollow the steps below.

But for a faster and more hands-on approach (and a look at how huge some of these files really are), we recommend the manual method.

Do so now: were going to clear out all the temporary files that Photoshop uses to make sure it doesnt lose any of your work.

Save the files in your normal work folder, and then close the program.

Having them open can cause file access conflicts that keep you from deleting one or more of the temp files.

Check the Task Manager to see if background programs like the Service Manager are running, too, and close them manually.

The files youre looking for are named Photoshop Temp followed by a string of ten semi-random numbers.

If you get any This action cant be completed messages, youve left an Adobe program open somewherecheck Task Manager to close them manually and try deleting them again.

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