Where is my free space going?

[nitroman84]

Hello, I have a quick question. I have recently moved my system to a 40 GB Intel SSD, from a 300 GB HDD. Used space was no real issue before the change but now I notice after editing a 350 MB video clip (on an external hard drive) there seems to be around 3 to 4 hundred MB missing from my system SSD even after running disk cleanup. The video was edited and saved on the external drive but space has seemed to vanish from my SSD. Where does Video Studio X3 store these hidden files? Thanks for any help.

[Ken Berry]

Check in File > Preferences to see what has been assigned as the Working Folder. It is generally in the C:\ drive unless you have conciously changed that...

[nitroman84]

Check in File > Preferences to see what has been assigned as the Working Folder. It is generally in the C:\ drive unless you have conciously changed that...

That's what is strange, C:\User name\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro\13.0 Is the working directory and the contents have been deleted from that folder after the project was saved. But the system still shows an amount of space equal to the video file is missing. Is there some temp file location or backup directory I am overlooking?

[Ken Berry]

Sorry -- but that working directory *is* where the temp files are stored (temporarily). Have you looking in the general Windows temp folder (in Vista and Win 7 ...\Users\[Your Name]\App Data\Local\Temp) But you must have View All Files activated since otherwise these are hidden. But I can't think why temporary video files would go there. However, there might be other temp files from other programs and operations lurking there...

[nitroman84]

Sorry -- but that working directory *is* where the temp files are stored (temporarily). Have you looking in the general Windows temp folder (in Vista and Win 7 ...\Users\[Your Name]\App Data\Local\Temp) But you must have View All Files activated since otherwise these are hidden. But I can't think why temporary video files would go there. However, there might be other temp files from other programs and operations lurking there...

Yes I have looked in %Temp% and nothing related to Video Studio (other than some files of no more than a few KB in size appear) I also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10 installed and just as a test I edited the same video file and it also seems to be holding on to some temp files somewhere, or Windows 7 has issues with reporting the correct amount of used space. I have given up and just ordered a larger SSD, I guess 40 GB is just too small of a drive if video editing is one of the primary goals of the system.