Photoshop invisible scratch files: a follow-up

In a follow-up to our coverage yesterday of a situation where Photoshop 6 did not release the contents of the scratch disk, Pat St-Arnaud notes that problem may be a long-standing one. He also points out a related issue when the invisible files are on a dedicated partition. He writes: "The Photoshop 6 scratch disk bug has been known for a while. I first saw it with version 4.5. It usually, but not always, occurs when a user crashes while using Photoshop." We are still not sure if the problem Pat saw is the same one we noted yesterday and which is the subject of this MacFixIt thread. Pat's second point applies if the files are on a separate partition: "I have also encountered a slightly different problem with scratch partitions that become filled with invisible files. Because AppleShare needs to create to invisible files to enable file sharing, an error message "File Sharing could Not be Enabled" will be seen if a dedicated scratch disk partition is filled with an undeleted, invisible PS scratch file. The solution is to make the scratch file visible and delete it." Also see our coverage below on the new version of Eradicator, which can delete orphaned invisible files created by Photoshop 6.