5 giga of error reports?

Mindmatter wrote on 12/7/2023, 6:08 AM

Hi all

as I had some strange trouble with space on my C drive, I ran TreeSize to have an in depth look at what was going on. I discovered, amongst other bizarre things, that Vegas had dumped over 5 gigs of error reports. Is there a setting to prevent that? I didn't know how huge some of these files were, now at least I can delete them manually.

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Dexcon wrote on 12/7/2023, 6:23 AM

While the total is 5.1 GB, by far and away the 3 largest error reports were in October 2021 (20, 22 and 28). Do you recall anything back in October 2021 that may have created these huge error reports?

You should find Error Reports in C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\VEGAS\ErrorReport and C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\VEGAS Pro\ErrorReport.

Mindmatter wrote on 12/7/2023, 6:40 AM

No sorry...that's 2 years ago.

Dexcon wrote on 12/7/2023, 6:49 AM

No sorry...that's 2 years ago.

Exactly. Please look again.

28 oct 21 - 2.0 GB

20 Oct 21 - 1.7 GB

22 Oct 21 - 1.3 GB

The 29 November 2023 statistic (5.1 GB) is a total of all the 537 error reports itemised below as it advises by showing that the total is derived from 537 files.

VEGASDerek wrote on 12/7/2023, 6:59 AM

My guess is that those error reports had project files that were included in them. You can open them up an see what is in the zip file.

Mindmatter wrote on 12/7/2023, 11:35 AM

Thanks Derek, I already deleted them as I needed the space. It doesn't matter really, now that I know what happened I'll delete them regularly.

@ Decon
Exactly. Please look again.

28 oct 21 - 2.0 GB

20 Oct 21 - 1.7 GB

22 Oct 21 - 1.3 GB

The 29 November 2023 statistic (5.1 GB) is a total of all the 537 error reports itemised below as it advises by showing that the total is derived from 537 files.

Yes ok I saw that, but so? I still think those 3 files should not have had that size in the first place. Not sure what you want to tell me.

VEGASDerek wrote on 12/7/2023, 11:42 AM

If you check "Include extra information...." in the error dialog, it will include project files and any media in that folder...that is likely why those error reports were so big.

Mindmatter wrote on 12/7/2023, 11:44 AM

If you check "Include extra information...." in the error dialog, it will include project files and any media in that folder...that is likely why those error reports were so big.

good to know, thanks!

john_dennis wrote on 12/7/2023, 12:16 PM

@Mindmatter

You might have also collected crash dumps from Vegas and/or other sources.

I only do updates on an OTB system image so mine get deleted often when I restore my system image.