Premiere Pro CS4 Eats Up Hard Drive « Videomaker Community Forums

hmueller
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I recently upgraded from Premiere CS3 to CS4 on my PC with windows xp. While I was capturing video files I suddenly got an error message that I had run out of C drive space. All my scratch disks were set to the H drive. When I looked I found that my C drive that used to have a capacity of 130 GB, now only had a capacity of 70GB! 60GB had vanished! Adobe maintains it is a Windows problem. That does not make sense as I never had this problem with CS3. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks
Heidi

Posted 2 years ago #
chuckengels
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Heidi, do you know what files are taking up the additional space?

There isn't a lot of difference between CS3 and CS4, but to be honest 60gb is not that much space these days.

Especially when it comes to video editing.

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Posted 2 years ago #
hmueller
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I agree, 60GB is nothing considering that I was capturing HD.

But, the problem is not the temp files that may be created, but that the hard drive seems to have lost a corresponding amount of its capacity. Whereas before, My Computer indicated a capacity of 130 GB with xxx free, it now gives a capacity of 70GB with yyy free. The lost 60GB must be hidden/system files because they don't show up when searching with Windows Explorer.

Posted 2 years ago #
Johnboy
Member

were you capturing to your c drive? that's a no no to begin with.

Posted 2 years ago #
chuckengels
Member

Why is capturing to your C drive a no no?

Posted 2 years ago #
hmueller
Member

No, I was not capturing to the C drive. I found a forum that discusses the same issue (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419513?start=50&tstart=0) but I am not able to figure out what the solution is.

Heidi

Posted 2 years ago #