clogging C drive

[dmstraker]

I've an SSD C drive, which most people have these days. More than once I've had to trawl through Affinity folders there to root out files clogging up the drive until it becomes unusable. The latest was .affinity/Photo/2.0/temp/personabackstore.dat which was 117Gb. I've also found loads of old files in the autosave folder before now. I'm an old techie and was comfortable doing a name change to check that deletion wouldn't mess up the works. I can imagine people with a creative background being stymied by the problem.

More info: On Windows, I got a 'disk full' complaint, along with a list of culpable folders. Affinity was the 1000lb gorilla here.

It would be sensible to be able to locate temporary and backup storage on another drive (I have a second SSD just for this purpose). Set it up through Settings.

Cheers and best to all you good folks at Serif!

[NotMyFault]

Has been discussed several times in the past if it is possible to install Affinity apps on different drives and that personalbackupstore may burst your c-drive.

you can use junctions as described below.

 

[dmstraker]

Thanks, NMF. I'll probably leave it where it is for now as it only happens occasionally and I know how to fix it.

The suggestion to configure temp and backup stores on other drives still stands. Not an original idea, but would still make life easier.

[v_kyr]

10 minutes ago, dmstraker said:

The suggestion to configure temp and backup stores on other drives still stands. Not an original idea, but would still make life easier.

As far as the other connected drives are always continuously stable connected (no sleep mode, always powered, connected & reachable) you should be able to accomplish this with common system on-board resources (linking, junctions ...).

[walt.farrell]

You can move the .affinity directory (while the Affinity MSIX applications are not running), then use the mklink command in a command window to point to it. 

For more info: