Temp file gone insane!

[TheBadger]

Hello,

I recently had to restart my comp after using a bad flash drive. When I did I saw my trash had items in it... About 300 mbs of terragen2 stuff (recovered files folder). I had never manually deleted them so I'm not sure why they were in the trash anyway.

Is terragen2 auto deleting temp files? And if so from where? Because when i looked to see where on my mac (snow Lep) the tempfile was located I found loose .bmp files all over my hard drive!

To be precise I went to my hard drive icon and found about 150 more terragen2 created files just siting in there... No file for them or anything. Whats going on with that!?

Thanks for any help

B.

[Largent]

The temp files show up in my trash as well. I figure that its just normal since I see no reason to keep 99% of them anyway.

[TheBadger]

Yes, but the other threads on this subject don't seem to agree. I wonder if its just because i'm on a mac?

[Largent]

I am as well

[jo]

Hi,

TG2 does save files to the temporary items folder, mainly after finishing a render. Normally it will save the image and the alpha buffer for the image. This can be handy if you have a crash during rendering, sometimes you can retrieve something usable from the file save in the temp folder.

To be honest, I'm not sure why it is set up by default to always save the alpha image.

Further to that, I'm not 100% sure what the policy is regarding deleting temp files on the Mac. The oldest files I have in the temporary items folder are just a couple of weeks old and I haven't deleted them manually. Looking in the Trash I do see some TG2 temporary items which are about 3 weeks old (haven't emptied the Trash in a long time :-). It looks like the OS might be cleaning things up every couple of weeks. Of course it doesn't take long for these files to take up a bit of space, especially if you are rendering a lot of large images. However I reboot my machines sometimes several times a day so if you tend to leave yours on for long periods that might make a difference, as I believe the temporary items folder gets cleaned up during startup.

I'll discuss our temporary files policies with the others. It isn't something we've taken a look at in a long time and perhaps we need to reassess why we do things the way we do.

If you want to check out what temporary files have been created by TG2 you can select "Reveal Temporary Files" from the File menu.

Regards,

Jo

[TheBadger]

Thanks jo.

I would say that I really don't have any complaints about terragen saving to a temp file. I imagine it will at some point really help me as I get better with your program.

What bothers me (and this may be something Im doing wrong) is that the files are not being put in a folder I can access or even find on my hard drive. They are being deposited loose in the main window of my hard drive icon. Is this something I can fix? or is possible that did a bad install of the software? Or is this normal?

I Love this program and the creative doors its opening for me, so thanks for your help.

[Dune]

Here's where you (well, I, actually) find them manually: C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Local Settings\Temp\Planetside Software\Terragen 2. And I don't get the scattered all over, but neatly piled in folders. Easily accessible by the button 'explore temporary files'.

---Dune

[bobbystahr]

Here's where you (well, I, actually) find them manually: C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Local Settings\Temp\Planetside Software\Terragen 2. And I don't get the scattered all over, but neatly piled in folders. Easily accessible by the button 'explore temporary files'.

---Dune

he's on a mac Dune.....

[Dune]

Ah

[red_planet]

Hi

for a mac ... macintosh hd/users/username/library/cahes/TemporaryItems/Planetside Software/Terragen2

There may be variations, the main ones, of course, being system disk name and user name.

Of course this may be determined fairly easily by clicking on Reveal Temporary Items in the file menu drop down.

Rgds

Chris

[TheBadger]

Thanks guys