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Timi Conley
May 11, 2011 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Final Cut – Startup Disk Space

David, thanks again for the insights, and point well taken. Believe it or not, in this case the drive in question is an older 152GB startup disk in a 2004 G5 tower, so the 8GB I freed up by deleting those temp files actually made a big difference, securing the 10% free space of which you speak.

Clearly though, I am on a collision course with a purchase of a new external 1TB drive.

Anyway, please forgive the noobishness- I’m actually a single dad musican who makes videos- certainly not a film pro with the time to study the process in depth. I sincerely appreciate the assistance.
All the best-
Timi

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Timi Conley
May 11, 2011 at 1:05 pm in reply to: Final Cut – Startup Disk Space

Using Grand Perspective (thanks Mark!) I located some files in Users > Library > Caches > Temporary Items called ICMMultipassStorage… that seem to be the culprit. Check that. I tried to delete those items (the dates on them made perfect sense, as they corresponded with the export attempts), but they would not empty from the trash because they were “in use”. I quit FCP and then emptied the trash with no prob, freeing up over 8GB.
Timi Conley
May 11, 2011 at 12:33 pm in reply to: Final Cut – Startup Disk Space

I’m having the same problem! I noticed that final cut keeps a folder in Users > Documents > Final Cut Pro Documents on the startup disk, but there really aren’t that many files there, and it isn’t taking up much space. There is another folder there… Users > Movies… mine is empty, but yours may be being used as a default location for movie projects?

Have you figured this out? It’s perplexing. I am trying to export an 80min long movie from an external 1TB drive to another internal drive with almost 30GB free (plenty for the export) and it failed because of space on the startup disk, leaving 0k space left on the disk with no sign of files that I can find! It seems like that should all clear up if an export fails. What is it using it for? My scratch disk is set via preferences to the external 1TB drive. It’s weird… granted my startup was pretty full when I started the export.. maybe 2 or 3GB free- not optimal, I know, but that’s what I tried.

Anybody know what’s going on here?
Timi Conley
May 10, 2011 at 3:42 am in reply to: can’t seem to crop in export FCP 5

Thanks for the insight… I’ll have a go of this and try to simplify my aspect ratio boondoggle. I’ll let you know. Again, thanks!
Timi