dmstraker Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 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! Quote Dave Straker Cameras: Sony A7R2, RX100V Computers: Win10: Chillblast i9 Custom + Philips 40in 4K & Benq 23in; Surface Pro 4 i5; iPad Pro 11" Favourite word: Aha. For me and for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 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 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmstraker Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 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. Quote Dave Straker Cameras: Sony A7R2, RX100V Computers: Win10: Chillblast i9 Custom + Philips 40in 4K & Benq 23in; Surface Pro 4 i5; iPad Pro 11" Favourite word: Aha. For me and for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 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 ...). Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 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: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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