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| tranceDJ |
Ok, heres my prob:
I had a load of mp3s that I hadn't cleaned up the tags for. I renamed all the tags. Before I did this I had 500mb on my C harddrive free. After I renamed the tags I only have 50mb free now. The thing is, all the mp3s were on my second hard drive (D). Now it says I only have 50mb free on C and keeps bugging me about cleaning up hard disk space when I can't cuz there's nothing to delete to clean up space, it just says space is being taken up. I checked the temp folders on my C drive and there's nothing in them. Anyone know what the hell is going on with this?
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| extulas |
| How would hcnaging the ID3 have any effect at all? |
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| jonsimmonds |
could be your virtual memory taking up disk space - windows when low on ram uses free space on the harddisk as memory.
you could try running cacheman - get it from the link below. It allows you to have more controll over it, but be carefull if you dont know what you are doing.
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/...lst-7-1.8831023
Jon |
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| Tranex02 |
The only thing i think might help is to restart your computer...
It'l hopefully freshen up. |
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| Fir3start3r |
A) How much RAM do you have?
B) What else was running?
C) What was the size of your swapfile and where is it located? (Sounds like C:)
D) Which OS?
Renaming an MP3 file shouldn't have changed the size of the original file even remotely. :conf:
Something else must have been goin' on... |
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| SmellsExcellent |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranex02
The only thing i think might help is to restart your computer...
It'l hopefully freshen up. |
HIGH FIVE! thats the answer to EVERY problem i swear!
-M |
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| tranceDJ |
Dude, I wish restarting solved everything and you don't think I already tried that??:)
Well I'm running a 700mhz celeron, dell computer, 256mb ram, windows ME
Pretty much the problem is that when I rename the tag of an mp3 on my 2nd hard drive, suddenly I lose an amount of space on my first hard drive (C) equal to the size of the mp3. Example: I had 50mb free on my C drive, I change the tag of a 10mb on my D drive and then I have 40mb free on my C drive. I know, its a ed up problem but I have no idea whats going on.
Things I've tried: defragging the hard drive (you think this would fix it but it didn't), restarting the computer
thanks for your help so far |
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| jonsimmonds |
Sounds like virtual memory is playing up, did you try installing cacheman??
Jon |
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| flystyler |
| Yeah it is just crappy windows, reboot does the trick, otherwise i would have suggested somit like norton, or fix it to delete any unused files. Like an image file you forgot to delete etc, always good to run one every so often :) |
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| Tranex02 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SmellsExcellent
HIGH FIVE! thats the answer to EVERY problem i swear!
-M |
:p ...lol...that was the case until last week when my system crashed and i had to reinstall windows.... |
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| zzleeper |
| Maybe the answer was in the Temp file. The proggie could have stored temporal changes to the mp3 for some obscure reason, and forget to delete them.. try at c:/windows/temp/ |
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| Fir3start3r |
You could also try moving the SWAP file to a drive other than where your OS is located.
Hopefully that's a different physical drive and not just a partition of the same hardware. That could help.
I think zzleeper might be right too. Check the location of your OS's working temp dir. AND if the program's (if you can). |
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