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  • Compressor Temporary Files?

    Posted by Evan Cox on August 23, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    I have sort of a general Apple Compressor question. Every time I compress a video it begins to drain memory from my local hard drive. I have three other hard drives with more space that I would rather use. I have looked multiple times as far as I could to find where these temporary compressor files are hiding but I can’t find them anywhere! They are taking up quite a bit of space at this point. Any idea where I might be able to find them? Or a better way to start looking for them? Anything helps.

    Thanks!

    -Evan

    Paddy Uglow replied 12 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Paddy Uglow

    August 27, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    I don’t use Compressor at the moment, but I found out the following:
    One person says “If you click on the blue button on the top right corner of your screen (the one showing a magnifier icon) you can trace this temporary files folder and get rid of it.”

    The other found the files in /private/var/spool/qmaster

    I hope that helps.
    Presumably there are some preferences somewhere where you can set a location for temporary files?

    Good luck
    – Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

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