Increasing Allowable Scratch Disk Space

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Increasing Allowable Scratch Disk Space

Hi Gang

I was a bit surprised when I noticed the remaining Free Space of a new Scratch Disk Assigment
http://www.locationstudio.net/FreeSpace-2.jpg

So then I guess I need to increase the Allowable Space since I really have 900 Gigs?
http://www.locationstudio.net/FreeSpace-1.jpg

Thanx
Mike

Power Mac G5 1.8 - G4 1.4 Quicksilver, Mac OS X (10.4.11), G5: 4 Gigs RAM - ATI 9800 Pro AGP - #2 Internal Drives

Posted on Jun 22, 2009 6:23 PM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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Jun 22, 2009 6:53 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

According to the first picture, you have 261 GigaBytes of free space on your scratch disk.

The second picture is telling you that you must have at least 2047 Megabytes (2 GB) free for capture to take place -you do.

Where does the 900 GigaBytes part come from?

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ENIGMACODE Author

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Jun 22, 2009 7:10 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Nick

As I mentioned, in actuality I really have 902 Gigs (see the Red Arrow);
http://www.locationstudio.net/Free.jpg

I was asking if updating/changing/increasing the ALLOTMENT will increase the Max Scratch Disk?

I might be missing something here, but I sure hope I can increase the Scratch Space?

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Answer 3

Jun 22, 2009 7:19 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

The "Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks" setting is set for 2gb. Decreasing wouldn't help. You should actually increase the setting so that 10% will remiain free.

-DH

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Nick Holmes

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Jun 22, 2009 7:15 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

Changing the 2047 MB value at the bottom of System Settings will not help. As I mentioned above there has to be at least that much free for capture to even work.

Something else is going on here.

From my G4, for reference (the Pro is asleep)...

Log & Capture...

Trashng prefs might be a good place to start.

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ENIGMACODE Author

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Jun 22, 2009 8:12 PM in response to Nick Holmes

"Something else is going on here"

Nick you say I should 'Trash Preferences' ya know I've never done that. I imagine it might be a good idea to do that occasionnally? Perhaps when I changed Scratch Disk assignment, this is where the info/data got corrupted, or mis-represented?

Your system shows 918 Gigs of Free Space - so I don't see why I can't get things cleared up here.

Nick, can you please tell me how/where to trash preferences?

Thanx
Mike

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Answer 6

Nick Holmes

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Jun 22, 2009 8:16 PM in response to ENIGMACODE

Last one for today....

Deleting FCP Preferences:

Open a Finder window. Set the view mode to columns:

Click the house icon that has your name next to it.
Click the folder "Library" in the next column.
Find and click the folder "Preferences" in the next column.
Find and click the folder "Final Cut Pro User Data" in the next column.

Move the files "Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs", "Final Cut Pro Obj Cache" and "Final Cut Pro Prof Cache" to the Trash and empty it.

When you have a stable set of preference files, download [Preference Manager|http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm] to back them up. If you have further problems, the backup can be recalled and you can continue working.

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ENIGMACODE Author

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Jun 22, 2009 9:15 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Nick

Great information here - stuff I should have known since I started using FCP 3 years ago.

Well, forgive me, but I believe the problem was that after I reassigned the Scratch, I needed to click on 'SET' - that's all it seemed to be. All is well now.

But now that you have provided the process to Trash Preferences, I've read here that it's a good idea to trash em every so often anyway - yes?

Thank you Nick
Mike

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