Disappering boot drive

[easytimes]

I've been using VideoStudio Pro X7 on my Win7 Core i7 3770 machine with 32 gigs of RAM and GTX 460 GPU. I recently installed a 512 gig SSD to speed things up, and everything had been going along smoothly. I'd create projects, save the important end of project files to my 5 storage drives, then delete all the work files in the CvtedTitle folder, the 17.0 capture files, as well as all the odd capture files needed to fill in blanks on my projects, along with any archival files in the My Projects folder.

I started out with 326 gigs of free space, and held that much free space for a while... then I noticed it was down to 307 gigs, then down to 292 gigs. I did a cleanup, and took it back to 304 gigs, but after my last project, I'm down to 298 gigs of free space again. Even doing a desktop cleanup, and a check through all other areas of work file "stowage", and still can't gain back anymore space.

I do notice in the two CHE files in the BURN TEMP folder, but I have never removed them, before, and I was always able to return to very near my previous boot drive free space levels... there is about 10.2 gigs contained in those two files, but even that wouldn't give back my previous totals. This is my primary video machine, and I try to keep it clean for the next project, which can total between 8 and 50 gigs, give or take... just depends on what I'm doing. I tend to make DVDs and BRDs on each project, so I need free space to stay pretty large.

Hopefully, I can find a way slow down the loss of my nearly brand new SSD, without removing nearly everything else on the boot drive. Can anyone give me a hint? I'm sure I'm missing something.
Thanks,

[canuck]

What is "CvtedTitle folder"? Where is that?
What are CHE files?
What "BURN TEMP" folder? Where is that?

Maybe someone else knows to what you are referring but I cannot find any such source folders in my system (W7)

[RobertOZ]

It appears that the Burn Temp and CvtedTitle folders are created when burning discs, I have them with VSX8 and are located in
C: Users\*******\MyDocuments\CorelVideoStudioPro\18.0\DMF_TEMP

I would suspect that it would be perfectly safe to remove the contents of these 2 folders , however maybe one of the Mods can chip in here, but have no idea what a CHE folder is

[Ken Berry]

No idea either, though I would have thought that if they're in a temp folder, they can't have any wider significance once a project has been fully processed.

[BrianCee]

What is "CvtedTitle folder"? Where is that?
What are CHE files?
What "BURN TEMP" folder? Where is that?

Do you never burn Discs cannuck ??

They are all temporary files used when burning discs - you can delete them without problem

[lata]

Hi Guys


Yes Brian is correct they are created when rendering the projects in the Burner Module (Convert Title), generally being overwritten by the next burn process.
The folders are here:-
C:\Users\Trevor\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro\19.0\DMF_TEMP

If you render the project from the timeline to a compliant video file then there would be no need for the burner render and the files and the CvtedTitle (Convert Title) would not be needed, even so you have created that file.
The files size can be the size of your discs so a BD could be 25Gb, a DVD would be 4.3 Gb.

There are Smart Proxy files that could be used, maybe they are contributing to your data usage.

Even so the usage is not that bad as you seem to be working with Bluray?

[easytimes]

Sorry for not adding anything to my original question, but evidently, I wasn't automatically subscribed... or something like that.

I just created and burned another project, and after deleting a couple of applications I no longer use, I was back to 309 gigs of free space. I finished my project, then deleted all the captures, conversions and disk images, some of which I save to a storage drive as a personal form of archiving. I am now down to 304 gigabytes of free space. Sounds like my problem still exists, and as hard as I look, I just can't find where those 5 gigs go. When I first started using VS Pro7, I always seemed to retrieve all or nearly all of my drive space, but now that isn't true.

The CHE files I mentioned are still there, but this time, they are 6+ gigs and 4+ gigs... removing them won't help, since they will return after another project, and I will probably still have the diminishing drive problem, but just starting with a slightly larger volume of free space, from the CHE deletions.

All I know to do is go until I burn the entire drive, and them maybe... MAYBE reload the OS to my SSD boot drive, and potentially start over again. I had hoped that someone knew about a secondary storage folder somewhere... like the CvtedTitle folder or the Burn Temp folder. Seems that VS loves to make lots of backups... maybe it's hiding one in a new location, or something like that.
Thanks

[lata]

Hi
I don’t think you have a problem, the program uses quite large files, that’s the nature of video.

DV-AVI is 13 Gb per hour
AVCHD about 10Gb, maybe more per hour
A DVD uses Mpeg2 files at 4 Gb per hour, a DVD Disc holds 4.3 Gb of data.

When we burn a disc we have two approaches we can use.
As I say we need a mpeg2 video file to burn a disc, we can create this ourselves by converting the project (Share to Create a Video File) or allow the burner module to do the job.
Yes here files are saved to the Burn Temp and Cvted titles folders, but are replaced by the next time we burn a disc, they will not accumulate increasing in size each time you burn a disc.

I am surprised that you say one file was 6 Gb, either the project was oversized or were you using AVCHD files?

Video Studio uses other locations to store files, Smart Proxy probably being the largest, but they are normally removed automatically or by us. The Save folder can be allocated by us allowing us to manage the files.

The editing processes between X7 and X8 has not changed so I am surprised that the temporary files used are different

[BrianCee]

Each version opens it's own folder under C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro - - thus version X7 puts all it;s files in a '17' folder while X8 will make a new '18' folder and put all it's temporary files in there - so each new version does use a slightly different location to store those files.