I use Pinnacle 11 Ultimate on Windows Vista. 

When I create a project and try to burn it to a disc, it seems to be "eating" my hard drive.

I have approximately 10 Projects saved of varying lengths of 20 minutes to 95 minutes.

In C:\ProgramData\Pinnacle Studio\Data\Render\"project name", my movies take up 307 GB of space on my hard drive. The projects are also listed in C:\Documents\Pinnacle Studio\My Projects\"project name" and there, they take up 764 MB. 

The movie I am working on is approximately 65 minutes long and it takes up  97 GB of space in the "render" file and 84 MB of space in the "my projects" file. It is a combination of video, photos and audio files. Before I started to burn the 21 copies of it that I am trying to make, I still had 13 GB on my hard drive - not a lot, but I thought it would be plenty. My burn failed for some unknown reason and now I can't burn anything because it says "There is not enough room on drive C: to create the disc project. Please free up some disk space or change the auxilliary folder path and try again." Now, I have only 20 MB of space left on my 455 GB hard drive - more hard drive disappearing into thin air. Short of dumping the "render" files, I have almost nothing left on my hard drive to clear out. So far, I have only burned 3 copies of the 21 I need. Not sure about changing the "auxilliary folder path" - what does that mean?

Do I need to have these projects saved in both locations (the "render" and the "my projects" file)? Can I dump the render file without losing all my work so that I can take back my hard drive? I want to be able to burn copies in the future without having to do the work over again.

Help!

The projects are also listed in C:\Documents\Pinnacle Studio\My Projects\"project name" and there, they take up 764 MB.

Project Files remain "As is" & can't be Deleted. If you did, you would lose your Projects.

307 GB of space on my hard drive.

These are Auxilliary, temporary Files etc, generated during the Render process. (Apologies for bold type - Can't get rid of it). IMO, you should Delete the Render Folder, to get rid of them. Otherwise your HDD will become unusable & you would have to Re-Format, losing all of your Data, if you haven't done a Disk Image of your HDD.

Studio's File / Delete Auxilliary Files doesn't Delete all of them. You need to Delete the remainder manually. 

When you've done that, Defragment your HDD.

Anyone-else? (I expect Towbar'll be along in a minute or two)   

Studio creates auxillary files for projects, and they will sometimes eat up your Hdd as you have noticed.  If you've never deleted your aux files before, I'm sure you need to do just that. File / Delete Aux files will clear them out. As long as you use the commands in the program, nothing bad should occur. If Studio needs any of those files when you open up a project, it will simply re-create them . It takes a moment to re-create them, so the program will probably be a little sluggish until it finishes.

HERE is a FAQ on the files that Studio creates.

What they mean about changing the aux folder path is that if you have a second Hdd, you can move the default location to the new drive. THIS tells you about that process.

 

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 Anyone-else? (I expect Towbar'll be along in a minute or two)   

Howd ya know ?  Actually , I didn't know you had posted. Sorry if I created an echo in here.

towbar:

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 Anyone-else? (I expect Towbar'll be along in a minute or two)   

Howd ya know ?  Actually , I didn't know you had posted. Sorry if I created an echo in here.

You were 5 minutes late. What kept yer?

No one has mentioned an additional hard drive. You should not use C:  for your projects. I keep all my project work on a separate 750G drive. The studio program itself is on C. I never run out of space. Hard drives are cheap, you can get a  bare 750G for about $70.

Thank you all so much. You saved the day, my hard drive and my sanity.

what did you do?

As a part of the General section clean up mentioned in this announcement, I have moved this thread to its respective section from the General Forum.

Hey towbar, me again. Similar problem, i am trying to delete a file (.avi) i think. Up pops microsofts' warning that it is closing down the programme to protect the computer. (XP)

I know that there is a temporary work around for this but cannot find it. Do you know which one i am talking about?

Myles:

 Up pops microsofts' warning that it is closing down the programme to protect the computer............I know that there is a temporary work around for this but cannot find it. Do you know which one i am talking about?

It could be DEP (Data Execution Prevention).

HERE is a good link for you if this is the problem. I've got my computer configured to "Turn on for all programs and services except those that I select. The following are listed as my selection:

Studio Program File
Windows Explorer
Windows Media Player

 

Myles:

Hey towbar, me again. Similar problem, i am trying to delete a file (.avi) i think. Up pops microsofts' warning that it is closing down the programme to protect the computer. (XP)

I know that there is a temporary work around for this but cannot find it. Do you know which one i am talking about?

Could you provide us as screen capture of this error message?