Files not associated with VideoStudio corrupted

[Weeination]

I am using X8 and I noticed this last year. I was doing some editing and rendering and found out later some bits of stray clips found there way into files not associated with any VideoStudio folder. There were two television shows not in any VideoStudio folder which had a few seconds of clips from the separate files I was editing with VideoStudio. For just a few seconds, the non associated file played with clips from some of the files previously used by VideoStudio.

My Corel folders are within my Documents folder on my C drive. The files affected were in a separate downloads folder also on my C drive. The files used by VideoStudio had already been deleted, yet bits of them were still there on these non associated files.

I haven't used X8 since and want to know what can be done to prevent this from happening again. I suspect this problem was caused by my C drive being too full, but that's only a guess. Perhaps I should have my Corel folders on the D drive and also free up some room on that D drive before using X8 again.

Does anyone have an explanation as to what happened and suggestions on how to prevent this from occurring again?

[aljimenez]

Sounds like hardware failure of your hard drive. Files in the drive have records mixed. My guess is your hard drive is failing, and it has nothing to do with Video Studio.

[Weeination]

Both hard drives inside the computer are less than two years old. When I run chksdk from the command line no problems are found. I also tested the C: drive with Western Digital's diagnostic tool with a very through scan. It found no problems with the drive.

As both files affected were from downloads, perhaps the downloads were not quite complete despite what I had thought. If that were the case then perhaps the gaps were somehow filled by VideoStudio. I was doing some repeated editing in an attempt to try and "perfect" a project I was working on. This while the hard drive was possibly running at near capacity.

[lata]

Hi

As far as I know Video Studio does not move, copy or create files unless we the user tells it to do so. Other than the initial installation.

The clips on the timelines and libraries are merely virtual files, thumbnails representing the files on the hard drive.

So what are those file and how did they get on your PC?
If you have uploaded / saved TV programs, that’s ok but it was not Video Studio that did that.

Tell us the location of the files, the Windows Explorer address.

The program uses a working folder allocated to X8 here
C:\Users\Trevor\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro\18.0
But we can change that to any location, I have my working folders on a separate drive, just personal preference.

If your files were downloaded from the internet, I would download to my projects working folder rather than the windows default Download folder. At least I know where they are so shouldn’t lose them?

If the downloads were not complete, video studio would not fill the gaps, We should recognise that the download is not complete and download again. Besides most uncompleted downloads create an unusable file, so would not be able to import to VS.

Just seems strange what you are describing.