scratch file

I went back to the scratch files and pulled them out.'

It was still held in the scratch file.

"It generates a random name for the scratch file."

Photoshop stores these scratch files on what it considers the scratch disk, which (by default) is the same drive on which the program itself is stored.

But here, does not start executing until has finished, and a sufficiently large scratch file is required to hold the intermediate results as well as whatever work space each task required.

These temporary documents, also called scratch files, are three to five times the size of the actual image file, so even if you have enough room for the image, its scratch files need much more space.