Help With Photoshop Temp Files

[mfnick]

Any Photoshop experts here? My partner is doing some work on Photoshop and keep having a issue whereby when she’s used it for 30 minutes it slows to a crawl. We’ve found it keeps using about 200gb of temporary files which is basically filling the remainder of the Hard drive causing it to slow down. Whenever we empty the temp files it sorts it. Is there anything we can do to stop it doing this? Just doesn’t seem right surely? I’ve googled it and found lots of threads complaining about the same issue but struggling to find a fix. 
 

Edit - our laptop has only got 8gb ram. - minimum for PS. If we upgraded the ram to 16gb - recommended amount - would that potentially solve it? 

[Maryokutai]

8GB isn't much but unless you're working on 4K data and whatnot it should be enough.

 

Have you tried maybe reducing the history and cache data under preferences -> performance? History in particular is sometimes set rather high but you really don't need more than one or two steps usually.

[mfnick]

4 hours ago, Maryokutai said:

Have you tried maybe reducing the history and cache data under preferences -> performance? History in particular is sometimes set rather high but you really don't need more than one or two steps usually.

That appears to have worked. Did that and been on it a good hour since and no longer slowing right down. Thanks a lot!!