This is Good to know!!!

Amadou

Amadou

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I just freed 700 GIGABYTES from my C: Main hard drive. Yes... 700 GIGABYTES. Guess who loaded up my drive with so much Junk? You guessed it: Premiere. Actually the temporary files remain on your C drive. You need to go find the directory and erase them every so often. In my case the main drive was getting full. I could not explain why until I went looking. 700 GIGABYTES. This is crazy. These files a created on the main drive even if you work on an external drive. Premiere just piles them up and never erases them. This is good to know.
 
I use the Mac version, and can select where I want these files to be, is it not the same with the Windows version? You should be able to select which drive the fies reside on.
 
Amadou, What you need to do (certainly on Windows CS6, and I would guess it's the same on Mac) is go into EACH app you use -- Premiere, After Effects, Mocha, etc -- and set its cache directory (or directories) to be where you want them to be. By default, CS6 will put them somewhere dumb, so you really need to set this manually.

For example, in Premiere, you have Preferences -> Media -> Media Cache Database. In AE, there's Preferences -> Media & Cache -> Disk Cache and Conformed Media Cache, which has separate Database and Cache settings.

I set them all to be d:\myuser\Caches. That way the caches go on my D drive, which has space. If I had a big enough SSD, I would put them there for speed. Also, in Premiere's Project Settings, you have Scratch Disks; I usually set those to be "Same as Project", but you could put those with the caches.

Having them in one place like this also lets you keep track of how much space they're using. After I finish a big project, I blow the whole lot away, because everything in there will likely be useless, so I can start from clean next time.
 
On my projects I go into Premiere's "Project" tab, then select Project Settings. From here select "Scratch Discs" and direct preview files and the like to be stored at the same location as your project.
Also after every project is completed, don't forget to delete those preview files. If you don't they to will be copied to your back-up drives as well, which eatsup een more HD space.
 
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