DVD Flick Temp Files

[jc daly]

Quick question, are there temp files created by DVD Flick after each DVD burned that aren't somewhere obvious on my hard drive? The reason I ask is, I just created 8 DVD's and I had a little over 60 GB of space on my drive. Now, after finishing, I have a little over 30 GB, and I know I didn't download anything close to 30 GB in that time. I know on the bottom of the program, it lists the project destination folder, but I always have DVD Flick overwrite the previous file with the current one, so that only accounts for about 4 GB. I can't imagine the loss of the approximately 26 GB is anything but DVD Flick, as it's all I've been doing the last three or four days, is making DVD's. Anybody have any insight? Perhaps there's somewhere I'm not looking or can't find?

[thegeeman]

I had the same problem many years ago. I too struggled to find the obvious place for these files. In the end, I lost patience and just did the following:
1. Disk Cleanup;
2. Ran CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner);
3. Then did a defrag. All good after that.

No, i am not suggesting a defrag after each time dvdflick is used as that would be laborious. But until someone on here can tell you exactly 'where' these dastardly flies are located, it will help. Good luck.

[BobT]

I've been using DVD Flick for a long time and never had that problem. AFAIK it places ALL created files in the folder you create as the "Project destination folder". I have always used the same folder since I make a DVD immediately from that folder. DVD Flick then warns when I make another DVD that there are files in this folder and I tell it to overwite them! It appears that you are creating separate foldesr for each DVD and then not erasing them. Hope this helps, Bob

[jc daly]

I had the same problem many years ago. I too struggled to find the obvious place for these files. In the end, I lost patience and just did the following:
1. Disk Cleanup;
2. Ran CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner);
3. Then did a defrag. All good after that.

No, i am not suggesting a defrag after each time dvdflick is used as that would be laborious. But until someone on here can tell you exactly 'where' these dastardly flies are located, it will help. Good luck.

Thanks, will give that a try

I've been using DVD Flick for a long time and never had that problem. AFAIK it places ALL created files in the folder you create as the "Project destination folder". I have always used the same folder since I make a DVD immediately from that folder. DVD Flick then warns when I make another DVD that there are files in this folder and I tell it to overwite them! It appears that you are creating separate foldesr for each DVD and then not erasing them. Hope this helps, Bob

Bob, I have always used the same folder as well, in fact, it's still on the default folder. I haven't intentionally created another folder for them(maybe through some unknown, unchanged option setting, I did). I haven't done so that I'm aware of.

[jman98]

This may be completely useless to you, but it might be useful to others. Windows seems to lack a good way to find out where files like this live. If you have Unix/Linux command line experience you can install the Cygwin toolkit (http://www.cygwin.com) and under Cygwin run the "du" command on your drive to find where all the space is being used. I'm not aware of a better way to do this under Windows.

[davexnet]

Treesize Professional has a free trial.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

I've used it in the past, perfect for this kind of problem.

[jc daly]

This may be completely useless to you, but it might be useful to others. Windows seems to lack a good way to find out where files like this live. If you have Unix/Linux command line experience you can install the Cygwin toolkit (http://www.cygwin.com) and under Cygwin run the "du" command on your drive to find where all the space is being used. I'm not aware of a better way to do this under Windows.

Hey, if someone else can benefit, that's good too. And you're right about Windows in this case

Treesize Professional has a free trial.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

I've used it in the past, perfect for this kind of problem.

Thanks, will give that a look also. Thanks for the help and suggestions!