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"Temp File" Rendering Question

Jul 17, 2012 9:38 PM

Hey all -

I'm just curious if these AEtemp-xxxxx-OutputName.psd files are actually getting written somewhere on my hard disk or if they're truly temporary.

I see them flashing by in the directory while AE is rendering to a .PSD sequence.

Any idea what happens to them - if they still exist? - after the render is finished?

Thanks,

RC

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1. Mylenium,

Jul 17, 2012 10:37 PM in reply to canoli99

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These are usually temp files generated for MP rendering to avoid limitations with multiple processes accessing the same file and I/O bottlenecks. It's safe to delete them.

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2. canoli99,

Jul 17, 2012 11:43 PM in reply to Mylenium

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thanks, yes I'd like to delete them - but where do I find them?

I read another thread, poster said his were in Users<UserName>Library\Preferences\Adobe but all I've got there is "Extension Manager" directory, which is empty.

I don't think they're anywhere on my C:\drive and they're not in any of my AE or PremierPro caches.

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3. Mylenium,

Jul 18, 2012 12:52 AM in reply to canoli99

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Temp files go to the user temp directory:

C:\Users\Canoli\AppData\Local\Temp

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4. canoli99,

Jul 18, 2012 7:27 AM in reply to Mylenium

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Thanks Myl -

These TEMP files are nowhere to be found

I guess what I'm seeing is the flle-creation process - what Windows goes through whenever it writes a sequence - an intermediate file that becomes the .PSD file.

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