Removal of old projects

[Edward Troxel]

I use Windows Explorer, browse to those locations, and manually delete the files.

Edward Troxel

[Gary Kleiner]

The best way is to have a systematic approach as to where your media, prerenders, veg files, etc are stored so that when you want to delete them, you know where they are.

Gary

[Steve Edwards]

Yeah, I have three drives. Drive one (system drive), drive 2 (drive where Vegas is) ,and Drive 3 ( where files are that pertain to veg files, practice files, and some project files. I just thought that sometimes I notice that files somehow get put in : I/documents and settings/steve edwards/my documents. (which I: is my main drive) seems like my video clips along with a avi.sfk file (whatever that is) ends up there. Maybe I have not assigned them right.

[Mike Kujbida]

Maybe I have not assigned them right.

Looking at where some of your files are (I/documents and settings/steve edwards/my documents), I get that impression too.

Options > Prefs > General. At the bottom of this tab is the Temporary Files folder location. Browse to the appropriate location.

And in the Capture window, it’s Options > Prefs > Disk Management. The only gotcha here is that this setting has to be changed for each new project as it defaults to the lst used folder. And yes, Sony has been asked repeatedly to fix this 🙁

I also wonder why you have Vegas on something other than a system drive. With 3 drives, the practice usually is #1 – system drive, #2 – capture drive & #3 – edited masters. You’ll find that renders go faster this way as well.

Bottom line in all of this is that you need to practice project management. I do this all the time at the college I work at where we may have as many as 20 different student projects on one machine. Project management is the only thing that keeps me sane 🙂

Get into the habit of creating a new folder for each and every project you do. Inside of this folder, put other folders like Vegs, Video clips, Music, Graphics, etc. When you start a new project, call it something like MyVideo01.veg and save it to the MyVideo/Vegs folder. Then, every time you make major changes to your project, do a “Save As” and call it MyVideo02.veg, MyVideo03.veg and so on. This way, if you have any problems, you haven’t lost an entire project.

Mike

[Steve Edwards]

since all my system files and more are on drive 1, there is little room 20gb, drive 2 has about 50gb left, and drive 3 I just put in is 300gb and barely used. I figured if I put Vegas and AE on the drive 1, there probably would be no room left, and very slow