
Nick The Man
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how do i create more space in a temporary files folder???????????????????
ok ill try to clear some things on the hard driv eFord Van said:Unless your application is putting a temp file folder size limit on it (I have never heard of that happening...but who knows...) Windows itself doesn't have a folder size limit. Again, I have folders with over 40gb's of data in them...no problems.
I have seen app's say that when the hard drive itself doesn't have enough room.
aspirin said:If I understand correctly, you are running out of virtual memory stored on your drive. That's called pagefile.sys, a hidden file (pointed to it by both TMP and TEMP environment variables), that you can choose to keep on any of your drives. To change where it is located, or the size of it for that matter, you can go to "My computer>properties>advanced>performance>settings>advanced>virual memory>change>costum size>{whatever drive you want, and the size}
and take it from there.
The popular rule of thumb is, keep your virtual memory at least two to three times of your physical memory for audio processing and you should be OK.
If that's not what you are having an issue with, excuse me for chiming in with my stupidity.
aspirin said:If I understand correctly, you are running out of virtual memory stored on your drive. That's called pagefile.sys, a hidden file (pointed to it by both TMP and TEMP environment variables), that you can choose to keep on any of your drives. To change where it is located, or the size of it for that matter, you can go to "My computer>properties>advanced>performance>settings>advanced>virual memory>change>costum size>{whatever drive you want, and the size}
and take it from there.
The popular rule of thumb is, keep your virtual memory at least two to three times of your physical memory for audio processing and you should be OK.
If that's not what you are having an issue with, excuse me for chiming in with my stupidity.
fraserhutch said:A temporary file Is NOT the same as a virtual memory (disk page) file. Virtual memory is very different from scrach disk space used directly by applications.
All error messages I have seen regarding the page file have indicated that there is not enough VIRTUAL memory. They have never mentioned temporary file space.
Nick, what does the error message say exactly?
FWIW, if you have at least 1GB RAM, you probably do not require a virtual memory file at all.
And finally, the pagefile.sys is NOT pointed to by the TEMP and TMP environment variables. Those environment variables indicate to applications where they can find scratch disk space. They are stored in the registry values I posted above. Virtual memory is not directly addressable by applications, and is only used by the operating system as a paging mechanism for memory presented to applications.
OK, spill it, what was it in the end?Nick The Man said:alright i got it figured out
thank you everyone
Vegas, right? I've learned to always set the recorded files folder before I do anything else in a new project. Saves me on aspirin.Nick The Man said:turns out that in the program i was using you can select where you want to put the files
so i chose the hard drive that had the most space
thank you guys for the input!!
MadAudio said:Vegas, right? I've learned to always set the recorded files folder before I do anything else in a new project. Saves me on aspirin.