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RecordNow! is eating my Harddrive :(

GrazGraz
edited September 2009 in Chit chat
I had 3 gigs on my machine and I tried to burn a DVD with RecordNow. It failed, my drive locked up and I had to re-boot. When I looked into my harddrive, the 3 gig had been swallowed. I made another 3 gigs, and tried to burn a smaller disc (I should have 6gig free now) It froze again, and now I'm let with just 300 meg. Where's my hard-drive space going? I emptied out temp files, and re-booted, but it's not made any difference. What in blue-blazes is this bloomin computer doing to me this week?! Grrrrrrrr!
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited September 2009
    Have you checked to see if there are any hidden files eating up the space on your hard drive?
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2009
    Something similar happed to me once when I was using Nero. My PC failed during writting to the CD, but I'd already made the image (it was a direct cd copy). When I restarted my PC, I found that Nero hadplaced the disc image in such a place that it appeared on the My Computer screen, just under the hard drive (c:) from there it was a simple double click and I was ready to burn the cd again and when i'd finished, I chose not to keep the file and it was gone. I know this is a different program, but it may be worth checking ther to see if that's what it's done.

    Or, why not look at starting another DVD, but looking at the programs options/directories to see if that sheds some light on where it's put the images that you have already made?
  • GrazGraz
    edited September 2009
    Hmm, maybe. It's just finding the wretched things.
  • GrazGraz
    edited September 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    Or, why not look at starting another DVD, but looking at the programs options/directories to see if that sheds some light on where it's put the images that you have already made?

    I went to open previous projects, but there's no projects in there. Also looked in hidden files as suggested, but no sign of it. Oh lordy, this aint fun.

    Edit: Only 129megs left, not 300. Guess I'm gonna have to put important files onto memory sticks and re-format harddrive again.
  • AndyCAndyC
    edited September 2009
    Try looking under:

    C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!

    Assuming you are on XP. It'll be something like c:\users\%username%\appdata\ocal\sonic\recordnow! if you are on Vista/7
  • GrazGraz
    edited September 2009
    AndyC wrote: »
    Try looking under:

    C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Sonic\RecordNow!

    Assuming you are on XP. It'll be something like c:\users\%username%\appdata\ocal\sonic\recordnow! if you are on Vista/7

    Ahhhh, you sir, are a top-man! Now I'm happy. Worked a treat. There they were, now they're gone. Yey! Thankyou so much. :)

    Aint WoS brilliant, so many lovely peeps here.
    Gonna have a large whiskey now and smile a lot!

    Thanks guys.
  • chevchev
    edited September 2009
    Be glad you never had to clean out a Time Machine volume on Mac OS X. You don't even have access rights to get rid of those files from the default admin account.
    zx.itch.io
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