Showing posts with label express. Show all posts
Showing posts with label express. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008

WTF? Low on Disk Space?

It was unbelievable. Windows XP told me that I was running out of disk space. True enough, the drive showed that it had a couple hundred thousand bytes left, so I went to check each of the folders in my system partition. I used to have difficulty filling up my 10 Gb partition because of my mean-and-lean philosophy. Now this. I found out that

C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\NCH Swift Sound\Scribe\Current

used up 338 Mb of my drive space but was cleared on exit, and

C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Application Data\NCH Swift Sound\Scribe\Done

had accumulated all the previous temporary files and by now had used up 5.13 Gb. WTF?

Apparently, Express Scribe uses *.ra and other audio files to create temporary *.wav, *.txt, and *.dat files. So this means that it bloated the 7.08 Mb files to 300+ Mb. When I clicked the Done icon, the said files were moved to the Done directory. Those files stay there until you delete them. Well, it's like having a backup, but if you don't know this, you'll find yourself without any disk space left.