Pro Tools Filling Up C Drive

[Drywsef]

Hi All,
Pro Tools has started filling up my hard drive whenever I load a project. I have 12 gigs of free space on my C drive and loading projects knocks that down to 200mb. The space becomes available again when pro tools closes. Is anyone else having this issue?

[JoelG]

That's not much free space regardless of Pro Tools..

You don't mention if you're using a local session or a cloud project. If you have another drive you could try changing the cache location: https://avidtech.my.salesforce-sites...t-files-stored

Joel

[Drywsef]

It's a local project (does anyone use cloud?). Changing the cache location still results in a ~10gb "overhead" on my C drive.

[Darryl Ramm]

You mean a standard local session? A local project is not the same as a session.

From your signature, the session or whatever it is is not on the C: drive? correct?

What is Pro Tools disk cache set to?

Hopefully C: is a fast NVMe/PCIe SSD.

Without even looking at the details my *guess* is it's likely Windows automatically adjusting the paging file (C:\pagefile.sys) sizes as you have that set to the default dynamic sizing. But this system is clearly badly misconfigured with such little free space to start with--you need to fix that. If that is not it, provide additional info, including the windows virtual memory settings, and post a Sandra report.

[albee1952]

Hmmm, some thoughts:
1-re paging file, most modern PC's don't need any.
2-re the C: drive filling up, I suspect that your file management may not be correct. Some ways that this can happen:
A-you are using the default setting(on the dashboard when you create a new session) where it puts things in your Documents folder(make sure the box is checked for you specifying where you want things to go)
B-you say you have a separate drive for sessions(that's good) but are you sure they are actually going there((see A) and are you sure that your audio files are also going to the sessions drive? One way this gets fouled up is when users will open a template session(which may be on the C: drive) and then saving it to the recording drive. In this case, Pro Tools may be sending all the audio to the template session's Audio Files folder. The proper method here is to either Create from Template, or create a blank/empty session and then Import Session Data from the template session(in both cases, the idea is to never actually OPEN the template session).

Last idea is to check your downloads folder and get rid of everything there(delete, or move stuff you wish to keep to any external drive so you have it. This is good for installers and updates). Apologies if this is old news to anyone, but not all of us are computer nerds

[EGS]

Good advice above!

Plus:

delete hiberfil.sys
empty software distribution folder contents
empty user temp folder contents
disk cleanup ---> cleanup system files

Google for instructions if needed. It's easy & will definitely free-up some space on your C drive.