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Astralis
Senior Member
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 Posted - 15 August 2004 : 18:24:58
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I'm trying to move my TEMP directory to the D:\ drive because it has a massive amount of space so that I can copy home movies onto my DVD. I changed the temp directory in the environmental variables panel. I hope this was okay. Does anyone foresee any issues with this?
Next problem, after I changed the directory, I forgot to create a TEMP file in the D:\ drive. So, somehow all the files were being saved onto the C:\ drive and now I have no space at all on C:\ but I can't figure out where it was saving these on C:\. How can I locate and delete these files?
UPDATE:
The questions above are still valid. But, after creating the TEMP directory on drive D:\, I copied a file from D:\ onto E:\ which is the DVD drive. After a few minutes, I got a "not enough space on Drive C:\" error and had to cancel the event. I tried to clean up Drive C:\ but there was only 5k of data to clean up. How is drive c:\ full and why does this drive matter when the TEMP folder is in drive d:\?
Thanks for your assistance! |
Edited by - Astralis on 15 August 2004 18:41:00 |
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gpctexas
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 15 August 2004 : 19:14:00
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In XP your default temp folder is in C:\Documents and Settings\yourprofilename\Local Settings\Temp
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 August 2004 : 19:21:21
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| This makes no sense. I checked and it is in d:\ drive. I tried to copy the DVD again by dragging and dropping and for some odd reason it's taking up space on drive c:\! |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 15 August 2004 : 20:35:56
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I'm starting to get somewhere. I've learned that even though I said the TEMP file is on drive D:\, the copy utility is still making a copy and placing it on drive C:\ before it writes it to disk. The E:\ drive (DVD), though, is supposed to make the image on drive D:\ so I'm not sure how to stop it from making a temp file on drive C:\.
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 16 August 2004 : 04:24:46
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Hmmm possibly it's just a poorly coded burner (or mayeb you're using the builtin one with XP) which is using a hard-coded path to what *IT* wants as a temp folder - does the app have the 'designed for XP' logo? If it does, it must comply with using your favoured temp folder.
Have you tried the 'create space on your windows partition' wizard to buy you enough space to complete the transaction? Or can you move a bunch of program files you rarely use just to free up space temporarily?
Could it be your swapfile causing trouble? Could the burner be trying to fill memory with what it has to burn, then 'overflow' to disk? Pure speculation, and will probably see me corrected  |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 August 2004 : 04:29:01
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setting the system %temp% does not have the effect you think, yes it moves it to a different drive, but it is a system temp directory, when you are copying files itwill be using your user temp directory which as doug says is in under your profile, to change that you will need to move your profile, and even then it probably won't help.
What app are you using to copy your DVD, most that I have seen or used allow you to set the temp drive it uses |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 17 August 2004 : 09:25:20
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| Some of those changes require a reboot as well, changing paths without rebooting will have little effect. |
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