Disk Space Problem with DVD2one

[filmerp]

When I started compressing a DVD using the disk copy feature on DVD2one, I had over 60Gigs of space left on my internal startup disk. When I was done, I had just over 8G. Tried directing the image to be saved on an external drive, but the program still uses the startup disk to run something I suppose, eventually using up every last k on it and quitting due to a lack of space on the startup disk. I have been unable to find a temp directory or cache to clear out-- anyone know where all this disk space is disappearing to?

[WiseWeasel]

Somewhere in the /tmp directory, I'd go exploring in there with the terminal, if you're adept at using it, or maybe you can use the "go to folder" command (in the 'Go' menu, if i remember correctly - sorry, at work on a Win2k machine right now, so can't verify), and enter /tmp as the location to go to, and see if you can find anything in there. I would also submit a bug report to the DVD2One people, as this shouldn't happen. I would also suggest repairing the permissions on your startup disk, as maybe DVD2OneX is not getting sufficient priviledges to clean up after itself for some reason. Use Disk Utility to repair the permissions. Also, restarting your computer should free up the space again.

[galactica]

isnt it GO / GO TO FOLDER / "/private/tmp/"
52 gigs seems like an aweful lot of temp!?!?

[terryj]

me thinks this person has never ran Cocktail, Macjanitor,
or my new favorite ( I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND) Macaroni,
and has MORE THAN ONE temp folder or cache eating up
his HD! 52 GIGs is very Excessive, and even running Mac the Ripper,
DVD2ONEX, and Toast 6 all that the same time, on a 60 GB drive,
I haven't seen it dip less than 25% of free space.

I would get one of the above three from versiontracker.com
and install and run it. At least with Macaroni, it's like a Ron Pompeil
app ( set it and forget it) and it will work to keep your tmp folders and
caches constantly clean, in the backround, all the time, when the machine is at idle.