Final Cut Pro using too much disk space

[Everest Mokaeff]

Me thinks your copy of FCP became self-aware and is poised to launch first wave of suicide attacks against humanity. You’d better run for it.

Joke aside, FCP uses disk space for render files. You hinted that it miraculously happened over night. May be you have auto-render function enabled and having hour or two of HD in open time-line with some filters that need render could add up to it.

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[Shane Ross]

Render files are going INSIDE of the FCP app. Odd bug, happens on occasion. Right-click on FCP and choose SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS. Look for a RENDERS folder in there. Trash it. BUT ONLY THE RENDERS FOLDER. You are inside theFCP app remember.

Shane

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[Jay Fishback]

Haaaa! That will soon happen!

Well that is what i thought initially, but it is in the application itself? And to the best of my knowledge it was closed over the night? Could it be hidden inside the application and if so how do i extract it?

[Jay Fishback]

Thanks Shane!

That was exactly the problem… You have helped me before with other issues where I found your answers in other threads, so this is my chance to say thanks for all your help.

Cheers,
Jay

[Ryan Maloney]

Not normally. Unless of course you have all of your processes linked and running to your mac hard drive which isn’t smart. I’m running mine on a macbook pro and I’m fine because I invested just $90 in to a 2TB (2000GB) external hard drive so my laptop runs fast and won’t get junked up. I link all of my videos to the external so that nothing really goes onto my macbook except the actually running of the program. Without the external attached, I can’t edit but it is sooooo worth it because not only will it not junk up my college laptop with all of my papers, etc. but there are rarely ever problems. Look on ebay for them and you can get a good deal like mine
Ryan

[Shane Ross]

Welcome. Who knows why that happens. It’s an odd one.

Shane

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[Maria Vahuri]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem and I deleted the render files but didn’t get any space back from that. 🙁

[Jay Fishback]

In terminal write in this code. Do not copy in the $ sign as it is the prompt and terminal automatically does it. For me this wasn’t instant, but later in the day it finally worked. Also make sure to copy everything correctly.

$sudo rm -Rf ~/.Trash/*

[Maria Vahuri]

Thanks Jay, that actually worked as much as it could and gave me some space back (3.5GB), also moving my scratch files to external drive was a good move.

And if anyone else with this problem has a Dropbox (downloaded app) and it has been syncing last few days it also can be the cache from that so from Finder> Go> Go to folder (Mac) and type in ~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache and delete all that cache which was my main problem- 60GB space restored.

[Sacha Atkinson]

OK here we are a year on from your post.
I am running FCPx last year’s version.

FCPx has been eating up disk space since i got FCPx last month. I have moved stuff to drives to free up space, but its getting tight in here!!

this morning I booted up FCPx and I had 2.5 Gb left – from 40GB last week!

Anyway, today all i did was cut and delete 3 small parts from a timeline clip. About ten mins work after boot up. I ran out of HD space. Like 2.5GB gone in ten mins with 3 cuts..

It can’t be rendering from last time used surely?

So I found this post and realised it was an issue.

I have done as you say but there is no Render file inside my app – package contents – it just doesn’t exist..
The only render folder is in the project folder.

Have you come across another way?

Thanks
Sacha