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how do i create more space in a temporary files folder???????????????????
 
??? I don't recall folders having a size limit? Am I missing something? I have folders with like 40GB's of data in them!
 
it has to do with video editing

and i need more space in my temporary files folder

thats what it tells me everytime i try to do what im trying o do
 
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.
 
Ford 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.
ok ill try to clear some things on the hard driv e
 
man my hard drive set up is horrible

my temp folder is on the same HD as windows and program files .... these canot be moved

the HD only has about 13 GB on it and program files and windows take up 5 and a half of it

so im left with 8 to work with and ive managed to clean some "unnessacary" things out

i have 5.47 GB free i dont know how many i need

dammit this sucks
 
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup
that gives you some stuff to clean up your hd and get more space. one of the options is clearing temporary files folder.
 
Or, in regedit, do a search in the registry for your temp dierectory and change the path. For example, my registry has temp directories in


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TMP
-> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TMP
-> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\EnvironmenTMP
-> %SystemRoot\TEMP

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\EnvironmenTEMP
-> %SystemRoot\TEMP



Change the keys to point to directories on another disk.

Word of caution - if you have little or no experience playing wit the registry, save your registry first (File -> Export)
 
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.


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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.

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.
 
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.

You are right on paging vs. temp files, sorry, I should have known better. That was my original thinking what was going on here, temp files are never an issue for me if there is still disk space available. On the other hand, I keep running out of swap space all the time. Oh, never mind.
 
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!!
 
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!!
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.
 
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.

lol yeah vegas and DVD architect

i was making a dvd menu
 
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