Space Problem

[mcorpse]

When I was encoding a VCD last night, Windows decided to stop TMPGEnc from encoding and tell me that "I was low on hard drive space". Bull! I had 6 gigs left. I know this is probably something to do with an internal Windoze setting or swap file, but could somebody tell me how to fix this problem in Win 98?

thanx.

[sean madison]

Well, there are a couple things that could cause this
If your HD is more than 20gb, then your temp file size space for your compression scheme whether it be fat32 or NTFS has reached its normal limit and cannot encode no further and HD is about to drop below normal file size.

Also, if you are running edonkey, edonkey tends to confuse the windows OS into telling u how much HD space u have free.
Since edonkey takes a little bit before it makes a temp file, but when it does, its the same size as the file u are dl even though the dl just started.
Windows does not always pick up these temp files as part of your your total space used on your HD so be careful.

[mcorpse]

Hmm...I think eDonkey is an ass, so I don't use it (pun intended). My hard drive is a 30gig one, and the video file was 1.1 gigs when it stopped. I've encoded larger than this, so what gives?

Please help. What can I do?

[Greg12]

Run scan disk.

Their may be an error that causes a bad report on the amount of free space.

It will report no more space avalible. Scan disk will fix it.

[mcorpse]

No, it isn't a hard drive problem, it's just a windows problem. Windows says I have 6 point something gigs left, but then the "save some free space for me" thing comes up. I remember reading somewhere that Windows has a thing which makes it stop you from filling your hard drive too much so that it can't boot, etc. I think mine's set too high, don't ya think?

[mcorpse]

Either that, or Sean has a point. Could anybody help?