Oddity - ExpressProjectCache

ynotfish

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Oct 09, 2015 02:11

I was over in C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\14.0 about to edit a profile and noticed a (populated) folder called ExpressProjectCache. I'd only ever opened the Express Project plug-in a couple of times to check it out...

The folder contained a pile of files - all with the suffix .pds.JPG - about 95% of them completely unrelated to anything I'd played with in Express Project. All the ones I checked are 1920x1080 but with small file sizes.

Some are from the Express Project templates but I have no idea why the others might be there...

I don't wish to sound rude, but what's in yours? and do you know why it's there?

Cheers - Tony
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Cranston

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline

Oct 09, 2015 03:52

Hmm. That's interesting or… disconcerting.

In following your posted path, I found that I had an ExpressProjectCache folder filled with 736 (1920x1080) image files, at a total folder size of 71MB. I too would like to know why 736 files have been saved there, and if it's going to continue to grow, and why this is happening since I havent used express project.

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Dafydd B

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Oct 09, 2015 04:37

Note:
Open the ExpressProjectCache folder
Open PDR14
Drag the Sample video into Track 1
Select Ctrl+Shift+S (File/Save Project as)
Locate a placement (folder) for your newly saved project pds as 123.pds.
Observe the generation of the JPG, 123.pds.JPG in the ExpressProjectCache folder.
Go to Preferences and select Manually Delete temporary files.
Keep the ExpressProjectCache folder open.
Manually Delete all your temp files.
The content of the ExpressProjectCache is retained.
Go to where the saved pds is and delete it.
The content of the ExpressProjectCache is retained.
Opinion, this is an "issue" for CyberLink to address.
Dafydd

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1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

Oct 09, 2015 05:24

I have actually used - and worked quite a bit with an Express project, and well - I have, as of today, only 3,4Mb in there, 21 files.

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Just something.
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RobAC

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Oct 09, 2015 11:36

Interesting indeed ... I just checked mine: 13 .jpgs 1.8Mb

The .jpgs are the stock ones installed with PD after I deleted my personal ones.

Also keep an eye on the "C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\MediaCache" Folder it had a few personal project .jpg thumbnails this left over after I had cleared the cache inside in PD settings. PD 14 Ultimate Suite / Win10 Pro x64
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 10, 2015 05:41

Quote: Opinion, this is an "issue" for CyberLink to address.

Dafydd - does that mean you have referred the issue to CL?

It's quite alarming when users who've not even touched Express Projects are having their cache folders populated, just as you described above.

Cheers - Tony
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Neil.F.1955

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Oct 12, 2015 08:45

Ynotfish,

Those images are likely "samples" to be used or ignored as desired, as decorative images in your video production. I note one of them is an image of Australia but our Tasmanian friends would be a bit miffed at being cropped out of the image(ha-ha).

Cheers!

Neil.

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Feb 20, 2016 19:34

Side note:
Cyberlink had promised they would occasionally add new templates to this function, but the template count is stuck at 25 and there have been to uploads by CL for some time. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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CS2014

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Feb 20, 2016 20:53

Is the ExpressProjectCache folder only in PD14? I'm looking tin PD13 and I do not see it listed.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 20, 2016 21:03

As far as I can see, the unintentional population of this ExpressProjectCache folder is still an issue.

Since purging the folder back in October 2015, I have NOT used Express Project at all. It currently has 232 items - 36MB, mostly related to other projects I'd worked on (nothing to do with Express Projects).

Neil - only a few of those items are related to Express Project, like Action/Anniversary/RoundtheWorld etc. ending, middle & opening images. No - not anything you'd use in a project.

Barry - the has been one extra set of templates added to DZ that aren't currently in my PDR... "Fashion". Any good to you?

CS - yes - it was only introduced in PDR14.

Cheers - Tony

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BarryTheCrab

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Feb 20, 2016 21:44

I'm not a well-known fashion icon, but I have all 25 templates installed, I am hoping to get a use for at least one of them. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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