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C Disk filling up?
Win 7, 32GB ram. PP 5.5 CS disk set up like this:
C: OS, Programs (internal 160GB SSD)
E: Projects (internal 7200 Hard Drive)
D: Captured Video and Audio (7200 2-disk internal raid 3Tb)
G: Video and Audio Previews (internal 160GB SSD)Problem is, my C: drive is filling up very fast as I edit projects and I can’t seem to figure out what PP or AE is putting on it and where. I’ve obviously missed something in the configuration.
What am I missing? Can I clean some files out that are clogging up the C drive?Can anyone help? Thanks!
J.Cummings
Cameralogic Inc.
Chicago/Cleveland
Sony F3/HDX-900
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I think it all depends on where you have located your cache – take a look in the settings for both Premiere and AE – this may be the culprit. This should help you out:
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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This is only a guess, based on an experience I had early on.
Premiere Pro generates a couple of different files having to do with audio tracks; one of them has a .pek file extension. There’s another, but I am not in front of the system and cannot remember what it is. Perhaps someone will chime in on that.
Preferences permit you to instruct the system to keep those files with your media, but it may default to dropping them in a folder on your install drive, if you have not re-directed them in Preferences. These may be filling up your C drive; it happened to us before we understood this.
Do a search on your C drive for .pek files and see if you have a huge pile of them. You can sort by date and delete old ones. Premiere Pro will re-generate these files as needed if you restore an old project.
These are not very specific instructions, because I do not have the system in front of me. Hopefully they will get you started and others will chime in!
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Move the Media Cache directory after you go delete the files in the current cache location. If you go under Edit and then Preferences in Premiere you will see the Media listing. The Media Cache folder directory is the one with the large files. The Database directory is not that large but performance is better if this is not on an OS drive unless it’s an SSD. BTW the Default directory for Media Cache is in your User Profile in hidden files under application data. You have to change the organize view to show hidden files.
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/show-hidden-files-folders-extensions.html#main__Windows_7
Eric-ADK
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That got me all straightened out. Thanks all!
J.Cummings
Cameralogic Inc.
Chicago/Cleveland
Sony F3/HDX-900
cameralogictv.com
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