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Temp Movie Files

First, here’s some technical information:

  • I have ZBrush installed on my F: drive
  • F: drive and C: drive are two physically different hard drives

So I was recording a ton of turntables of my sculpts when after a while I received an error message saying the hard drive was out of space; please clear out space and hit OK to continue. Thought this was weird because I know I have space on my F: drive (where ZB is installed). I looked in Windows explorer and my C: drive was completely full. This made no sense to me since ZB is NOT installed on my C: drive.
My best guess is that when recording or exporting movies from ZBrush, it creates somekind of temp files and by default they are somewhere on the C: drive. I thought closing ZB would cause these temp files to be deleted, but after closing ZB my C: is still full. Running a disk cleanup with windows did nothing to delete these temp files.
So my problem now is that my C: is completely full; blocking me from continuing to work on my main workstation. If I knew what folder location ZB was using to store these temp files I would go manually and delete them, but I have no idea where it’s putting this stuff and all my searches on this forum and on the Pixo support page have come up empty. There is nothing about this in the user guide either (least that I could find).

Does anyone know where ZB saves these temp files? This is really killing me right now- any help would be greatly appreciated!

It’s in your ZBrush 4R4 PDF, found in your ZBrush installation’s Documentation folder. Off hand, I think it’s page 21 of that document.

You simply need to change the scratch disk path. That’s done by modifying a file in your ZBrushData folder. The PDF tells you exactly which file and where, depending on whether you’re OSX or Windows.

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/customizing-zbrush/scratch-disk-location/

Thanks guys, WIll Miller from Pixologic support got back to me super fast and helped me out.

It never ceases to amaze me how amazing Pixologic is, one of the best companies in this industry. You really get the sense they care about their customers like no other.