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Premiere Pro EATS SPACE PC ??
Hello. I have my system drive set as my C drive on my new Windows 7 PC. I am running CS5, and I have the temp files (media cache database and media cache files) being pointed to a different drive. The scratch disk is set to the project that I’m working on, which is a third hard drive. So why then, would Premiere be eating away at my system drive? Nothing should be being dumped there…..and yet, all my space is GONE.
I do a search for any kind of files that are large and in a Premiere folder, and I turn up nothing. When I quit Premiere, and restart, my hard drive space doesn’t come back, which tells me it isn’t a RAM issue.
How do I resolve this? It is SUPER annoying…I ONLY want Premiere to be installed on the system drive, but I don’t want files (even if temp files) dumped there….Thanks,
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Hi Mike,
If you started a project with temp folders on your C drive, it’s possible that’s it’s still saving there. You can do a search for .prv files.
A couple of areas to check:
“My Documents > Adobe”
And “Users/{Your user name}/App Data/Roaming/Adobe/”
You will need to set your folder options to “Show hidden files and Folders” in Windows control Panel to access that last one.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Double Post
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I normally show all files/folders and I looked there and found 53 mb…so I’m not 100% sure where it all went. Nothing in My Documents/Documents (Windows 7)
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What indicates to you that PPro is using all this space if you can’t find any files?
…and just how much space are we talking about?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I think it is Premiere because when I am only running Premiere Pro and I see it saying that the audio is conforming, building peaks, etc., I watch the hard drive space go down. Restart doesn’t fix.
I’ve seen 40GB go before give-or-take.
Please keep in mind I’m not talking about when I digitize either.
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Where are you sending your conformed audio to according to your preferences?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I have 3 harddrives in my computer:
1) The System Drive
2) What we’ll call Drive 1 (95% full or so) – don’t use currently
3) What we’ll call Drive 2Right now, assuming I pulled up the right information, the media cache files do not save with the originals, but instead save to Drive 2. That is also where the media cache database exists. Drive 2 is also the scratch disk for everything. The project auto-saves every 5 minutes, up to 100 versions. These occur on Drive 2.
Prior to about 1 week ago, maybe a little less, all the media cache and media cache database were moved from the System Drive to Drive 2.
Did that answer what you were asking?
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Well…then where are these files that PPro is creating if you can’t find any files?
Did you look at the file path that Vincent specified?
If you can’t find the files, how is it that you can remove them to detect if PPro is writing new files?
I’m still unclear on this…the situation doesn’t make sense without a bit more detail.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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