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  • Persistent Disk Cache (mostly) vanished?!

    Posted by Jim Dodson on November 1, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Yesterday I had a disk cache of 430 GB of perfectly rendered material and all was well.

    I woke up today and it has dropped to 130 GB. I DID NOT purge the Cache — it just vanished 300 GB of hard-Rendered work…

    Has anyone else experienced this?

    Jim Dodson

    8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

    Walter Soyka replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    November 2, 2012 at 1:25 am

    I don’t really monitor my cache. Was your cache close to its limit when this stuff disappeared?

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
    Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

  • Jim Dodson

    November 2, 2012 at 3:34 am

    Yes it was at it’s limit — I can understand it removing some older files – but it dumped 300 gigs of renders….

    I am switching between 2 different large projects each with many sub-comps of High Def footage…. It’s as if it dumped all of one project to make room for the other — didn’t think it was supposed to do that…..

    I updated to CS 6 — 11.0.2 today… Hoping that might help…

    Jim Dodson

    8 Core Intel — Mac – OSX

  • Walter Soyka

    November 2, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    [Jim Dodson] “I am switching between 2 different large projects each with many sub-comps of High Def footage…. It’s as if it dumped all of one project to make room for the other — didn’t think it was supposed to do that…..”

    I have no idea what the rules are for pruning the cache. Is it possible it deleted everything related to a specific footage element?

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
    Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

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