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Old 12-04-2019, 12:35 AM
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Default Anyone know the exact path to delete temp files that PT puts in the drive?

I have deleted these files before and sometimes they are 30-50GB but I cant seem to remember where these files are and which ones to delete.

This is on macOS computers with High Sierra.

This has been discussed a lot before and many people had tens of GB in that folder but I dont want to delete the wrong files

Thanks soo much for any input here.
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Old 12-04-2019, 11:22 AM
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Old 12-05-2019, 08:47 AM
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are you refering to protools logs? i just deleted like 45gb of protools 2019.10 logs after having it for half a week....
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are you refering to protools logs? i just deleted like 45gb of protools 2019.10 logs after having it for half a week....
Does anyone know where are those on windows? My c drive just turned red in the last few weeks and I didn't know why, I'd like to see if this is it
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Old 12-05-2019, 12:36 PM
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Does anyone know where are those on windows? My c drive just turned red in the last few weeks and I didn't know why, I'd like to see if this is it
There could be a couple of reasons for that. Have you run Disk Cleanup (right-click on drive, Properties, Disk Cleanup)? If you select Cleanup System Files you can also eliminate all but the last System Restore Point (shadow copies) and delete Old Windows Installations (usually around 30GB). When PT was crashing in the background a while back because of iLok issue, it was creating crash dumps here: C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\CrashDumps. You could have accumulated a few of those. CCleaner also works well to free up space and I think there's still a free version.
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Does anyone know where are those (Pro Tools Logs) on windows? ....
In Windows 10, there’s:
C:\Program Files\Avid\Pro Tools\LogFiles
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C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Avid\Crashlog
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C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Avid\Logs

AppData Folder:
C:\Users\Username\AppData\
Needs the “\” after “AppData”, when you type to search, next to the “Start” button
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are you refering to protools logs? i just deleted like 45gb of protools 2019.10 logs after having it for half a week....
Yes yes thats the ones. Do you have a path where they are on macOS?

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On mac you have two folders called "Logs"; one in Drive/Library/, and one in Drive/Users/Username/Library/.
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On mac you have two folders called "Logs"; one in Drive/Library/, and one in Drive/Users/Username/Library/.
Hey Ben

I dont have a library in that second path.

Can you post the exact paths or is that the only 2 places to look?
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