hard drive is filling up

teday · Post by **teday** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:22 am

My hard drive is fillng up. I have over 20gigs in the
My Documents\Ulead DVD MovieFactory\3.0\ folder.
There are also files in other folders like these
Import_DVD and
DMF_TEMP
Do I just erase all these files and folders or is there a SAFE way to erase old projects?

I forgot to say I have Movie Factory 3, on WINXP Pent 4 HP laptop.
I'm using it to burn VRO files from my Hitachi camcorder to DVDs.
Nothing real fancy yet.
But my 80 gig HD is begining to fill up and I dont need to save the project files after burning successfully.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:40 am

To import 1 hour of DV-AVI from your digital camcorder is taking up 13 GB. If you are worried about the 20 GB already, I would guess that your system is too low on disk space to start with.

You can delete the temp files but the other folders hold data pertinent to your current project.

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:12 am

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The best way to retain your sanity is to use a dedicated video HDD connected either to the secondary IDE, SATA or a PCI drive controller. This way you can set your software up to use a folder on it as a 'working folder' and store your temps in a TEMP folder there as well.

This not only eliminates problems with the OS trying to hit the system drive while you're capturing (causes dropped frames) but it also makes file maintence chores much easier.

teday · Post by **teday** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:38 am

I forgot to say I have Movie Factory 3, on WINXP Pent 4 HP laptop.
I'm using it to burn VRO files from my Hitachi camcorder to DVDs.
Nothing real fancy yet.
But my 80 gig HD is begining to fill up and I dont need to save the project files after burning successfully.

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:34 am

I think Heinz has answered the question. You can delete the DMF_TEMP folder for it will be recreated eveytime you burn the project. For the Import_DVD folder, it would contain the video titles you imported from DVDs. If you can make sure no DMF projects use the video titles in that folder and you do not want to keep them, then you can delete them also.

But I would agree with Terry, a dedicated hard drive would be great for this.

Terry Stetler wrote:The best way to retain your sanity is to use a dedicated video HDD connected either to the secondary IDE, SATA or a PCI drive controller. This way you can set your software up to use a folder on it as a 'working folder' and store your temps in a TEMP folder there as well.

This not only eliminates problems with the OS trying to hit the system drive while you're capturing (causes dropped frames) but it also makes file maintence chores much easier.

I also have a dedicated video HDD, however I use it via firewire external box because I use my laptop to edit/author DVDs.

Best regards,
H.T.