Quote: Hello all
I have found that after burning a few DVDS (4 or 5) the space on my C drive diminishes by aprox 2 GB.

The reason I notice is I have newly acquired an SSD (so was monitoring my drives closely) and as I burn a lot of Dvds a month I will lose a lot of my C drive.

Could I ask anyone whose burning a few Dvds/blurays if you could check your C drives capacity before and after your session and see if you are also losing space?

I have tried tracking down the build up of files but have had no luck in temp or anything inside the PD10 programme itself.

Thanks for reading
David

Is the space gone even after a Shut down then re-start of the computer?

Sometimes Windows does not release its temporary files until a shut down.

Powerdirector uses a lot of temporary files.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks Carl
I will check out after I finish burning latest dvd

Hi Carl
Yes, space on C drive still missing after restart.

I started with 151GB free last week and i am down to 145gb.

I got my new 240GB SSD to comply with the 100GB free on your C drive rule when editing HD, so I am keen to protect my space on this drive

That's why I am wondering if this is commonplace with PD10?

cheers
David

I do not know if it is common with Powerdirector, but it is common with Windows.

Have you tried the Disk Clean Up button in the Properties of the C drive.

Select the C drive Right Click, Properties on the General tab is a Clean Up button.

That button will examine the C drive and give a list of the temporary files used and tell you the space used by those temporary files.

Nearly every program that runs in Windows generates some temporary files, Windows is bad about just leaving them.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Have not done that, though I use CCleaner daily and I believe this is a similar process

Depending upon how you are checking your disk space, you might or might not be including the recycle bin. Empty that and see what happens. Jerry Schwartz

You didn't say if you physically cleaned out your temp folder!

PD10 does not clean up after use and will leave many many files in your temp folder, standard practice should be to empty the temp folder on a regular basis.

Further as you have an SSD you should move your system temp folder to another drive preferably a HDD in your system, you will not see any performance hit but you will add longevity to your SSD.

SSD's do things differently than HDD and minimising writes to an SSD is a good idea, you should also not defrag your SSD.

If unsure how to optimise your SSD use Google to find some very good hints

David
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