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Old 17-09-2012, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by LewisM View Post
I have only 4GB of free space on C, which seems to potentially be the issue - I cannot seem to make DSS use my terrabyte external as the temp locale (even though the post-stacking autosaves go there).
Lewis, you can fudge some of the external disk to be part of your C: drive. I would be surprised if DSS was smart enough to detect this. You will probably find you can not can not unmount/eject the external disk.

Directory names are just examples.

1) assuming you have some unallocated space on the external drive (or can resize an existing partition to free some up):

mkdir C:\dsstempspace

create a new partition on the external drive and have Windows mount it as C:\dsstempspace - you do this from "My Computer" -> "Manage" -> "Disk Management"

2) download "SysInternals Suite" (or just junction.exe) from Microsoft (they bought the company). Suppose your external disk is E: then

mkdir E:\dsstempspace

junction C:\dsstempspace E:\dsstempspace

and tell DSS to use c:\dsstempspace

You can also add another swap file on the external disk.
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