Shrinking harddrive space

joncor wrote on 3/19/2007, 1:38 PM
Greetings all,
I have all my movie clips on my puter. I had 26 gigs free on my h/d after loading all the clips , now its down to 5gig (not enough free space to burn the dvd via Architec).
I had tons of revisions doing this 1.25 hour movie. All old revisions are deleted to save space. I have noticed compile time has increased dramatically over the past few revisions (is there a corralation of h/d space and compile time?).
Something is filling my h/d and I cannot find any files from Vegas that is the cuprit. I have consistantly cleaned the h/d, defragmented, and searched all folders looking for large files (to no avail).
Anyone have a clue what may be going on here? THe only thing left for me to think of is the "restore" feature in windows, although this does not seem to be a logical asumption.
regards and many thanx,
joncor

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Tollkuhnator wrote on 3/23/2007, 10:15 PM
I've run into this also. Here are a few things to try if you haven't already:

A) In VMS, under the Tools menu, try "Clean up prerendered video..." and delete all prerendered video files. (This may cause the next render to take longer.)

B) If you've used DVD Architect studio in the past, there may be various video object files lurking in a temp directory. Use Windows Explorer to delete them as described here (for Windows XP):

1) Start Windows Explorer by Start->All Programs->Accessories->Windows Explorer

2) Navigate to c:\Documents and Settings\<your login>

3) If you don't see a Local Settings folder, you'll need to enable the "View hidden files and folders" option. In Windows Explorer, choose Tools->Folder Options, then click the View tab. Click the "Show hidden files and folders" radio button, then OK.

4) Navigate to Local Settings->Temp->My DVD

5) In the My DVD folder you may see folder corresponding to recent DVD architect projects. Within these are the Audio_ts and Video_ts object files for burning to DVD. I usually just delete the project folders I don't need, and this frees up a few Megs.

C) Also look for dead temp files here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<your login>\Application Data\Sony\Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum\7.0

Enable the detail view (View->Details) and look at the file dates to see which files are from old projects that you can delete.

Let us know if this helps at all.
Jim Y wrote on 3/27/2007, 9:51 AM
Probably is accumulated temporary files. I'm in the habit with all content creation type programs of making my own temp folder and using the programs options to use this. It's a habit I got from the old Cool Edit Pro audio program that asked you to make temp folders when first run. Your own temp folders are quicker to look in than the Windows default one and can be particular to each program, so you know whos temp files they are.

You might also switch off Windows Disc indexing service on the drive/s. This service speeds up searching for stuff with office suite work, but I don't think it's helpful with media creation as all it's doing is slowing drive access building an index of things you rarely need to search for.

cbrillow wrote on 3/27/2007, 3:50 PM
In addition to the other suggestions, if you have certain Symantec/Norton tools on your system, you may actually have "protected" files that you though you'd deleted.

If you right-click the recycle bin and see something like "Empty Norton-Protected Recycle Bin" among the choices, click on that. Your drive space will be reclaimed.