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AE Fills up my disk space?
Hello,
I know this is most likely an amateur question and its rather embarrassing that I do not know this. But when I use After Effect for anything labour intensive such as rendering a large comp or such, it fills up my disk space on my internal hard drive. I always get the error message from my finder saying “Disk Space is almost full”
I already checked my preferences and I have no folder selected for auto-save, no folder selected for disk cache…….
Basically my question is is there a default folder somewhere where AE sends some sort of cache that could be filling up my disk space? Even when I have not selected folder?
Thank you
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There’s a media cache that stores some files that speed up use of some imported files.
But you say that this is when you’re rendering (I assume for final export, not for previews). Well, those output files can take up a lot of space.
from “Storage requirements for output files”
“[O]ne second of uncompressed standard-definition 8-bpc video requires approximately 40 megabytes (MB). A feature-length movie at that data rate would require more than 200 GB to store. Even with DV compression, which reduces file size to 3.6 MB per second of video, this storage requirement translates to more than 20 GB for a typical feature-length movie. It is not unusual for a feature-film project—with its higher color bit depth and greater frame size—to require terabytes of storage for footage and rendered output movies.”———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Thank you so much ! I have a terrabyte drive but my main system drive that is only 250 gig was getting hammered when using ae cs 6 your answers were my solution !
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I am having a similar problem.
I have After Effects CS6. I am using Windows 7. I notice that my C drive is filling up every time I render video on Premier or After Effects. I end up with less and less space. I sometimes put output files on my desktop and delete them afterwards. Most of the times my usage files are on a external drive. This happens only on my work computer. I can’t figure out nor locate the files. Like the folder property will show files size of over 50 GB but when I open the folder there is nothing. No Hidden files. -
Preferences – Media & Disk Cache. Empty your cache and relocate it to a drive that has space.
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