I'm presuming that you have called the disk "scratch" as it is being used as
a scratch disk for photoshop or something? Is photoshop (or something) still
running?... Still using the disk as scratch? If not, perhaps photoshop (or
something) is not releasing the data it is writing to the disk - try
erasing as andrew said

greg

> At 09:02 +0000 28/9/02, Colin Gordon wrote:
>> I have my hard disk partitioned into three — 'system',
>> 'documents' and 'scratch'. My scratch disk has '0' items on it, but
>> it tells me I have only 710MB available with 3.69GB capacity.
>> What the? anyone got any idea's?
> 
> Stuff in the trash and the trash not emptied?
> Disk errors - if the scratch disk is truly empty, try erasing it to
> eliminate any errors.
> Virtual memory using the Scratch disk for its space?