A question about Paint Shop Pro 7.0

[FredLC]

I know that there is some people around here who uses the paint Shop pro 7.0, and I wanted to ask you guys about a problem that I'm having around here:

Everytime I'm editing images, it somehow consumes a lot of space in my C drive (despite the program is actually installed in the D drive).

I traced some TMP files to a sub-directory in "documents and settings" that I erase, but somehow, there are others, as I never recover the same amount of free space I used to have.

For example, I have just re-installed windows, and I was supposed to have 2.5 MG free in my HD (as I had when I checked it before). Now I have 1.7, after cleaning the trash folder, all the restore points and erasing all the TMP files (first thing I did).

Also, I tried searching for the files by date and size (anything created in the last two days, plus anything above 1mb), or even only using the date criteria, and nothing seens to find whatever is the bug that is eating my HD.

Does anyof you guys have that kind os problem? And, most importantly, any of you knows what's going on and how to fix it?

Any help will be trully appreciated.

Regards .

 

[Yoda Power]

do you have ad-aware or spybot? if not, i suggest you get them, they do mirracles.

 

[FredLC]

????

Which of them can help at this, and how?

 

[nihilistic]

Most advanced image editing programs have the "undo" option, which means that they will record every change you make until you close the file. That usually means writing temp files to a temporary directory which is somewhere under:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp\

Yes, it usually matters where the temp directory is, not where the program is. The files *should* be deleted once the program terminates, but even if it doesn't, there is no harm deleting anything under the folder i listed above. What do you mean "2.5 MG"? milligrams? If it was meant to be "MB", i suggest you delete some serious stuff off that drive and reclaim some space for your temp directory. Also, it would also help if you would tell us the stats of your computer or at least which versin of windows you are running ... wait ... isn't there a forum specifically for this kind of stuff?

 

[anarres]

FredLC,

This utility puts an extra tab on the properties page of folders, listing the amount of data in each sub-folder. With it you can look at the propties of your c: drive, and you will see if any folder is too big.

http://www.danwilliamson.net/utils/dFolder.zip

One thing I just thought of, is it possible your system is expanding your pagefile? Have a look on your c: drive, and if there is a large file called 'pagefile.sys', it is probable that this is expanding according to the needs of paintshop. Graphical programs use a hell of a lot of memory when thry are manipulating images, and this is certainly a possibility.

HTH

 

[nihilistic]

Judging by the name "documents and settings" and "recover points", you are probably running winxp or at least win2k.

So you claim you reinstalled windows, did you delete the restore option of the old os?

 

[FredLC]

Ok, Let me correct some sillyness I wrote above;

First, as for info, I got an Athlon 2 Gigahertz, running with Windows XP professional. my Video Bord is a Gforce 2 MX 400, and I got a 40Gb HD that is divided in three parts (partitions?), (5, 5 and 20), being the C drive one of those with 5, and devoted exclusively to windows.

When I did re-install windows, I formated the HD, cleaning it completely and beguining things from scratch.

I actually was supposed to have 2.5 Gb, not "Mg", of free space. I managed to mistake the two letters here, praise me... :roll:

So, see the seriousness of the problem; in a matter of two days, those phantom files managed to swallow no less than 700 Mb from my disk space.

As for the TMP files, I have found such Directory; the problem is exactly that when I go check, there is nothing there, but the space is still used (before my re-install, I even had recieved messages to clear HD space after a few days of use, despite I was supposed to have almost 2 Gb freen than.

Finally, as for this not being the precise forum (with what I agree), I did it due to the specific reason that the "drawing a little" thread has prtoved me that there is many people on the OT that mess around with the PSP7, thus being this the perfect place for visibility.

Regards .

 

[FredLC]

Hmmm. I have just searched for the pagefile.sys. Such file wasen't even found in the machine, let alone a huge one...

 

[anarres]

FredLC,

You need to turn on hidden files or it won't show up. Go to 'Tools' menu, 'Folder Options' in windows explorer, a configuation window for explorer should appear. Tick the option labelled 'Show hidden files and folders'.

This may seem excessive, but from the description of your problem I think this is the likely answer. Once you have set hidden files to be shown, look at the root of your c: drive. The full path of the file is c:\pagefile.sys. Along with it are several other hidden files which should also be visible now. I suspect this file has grown to accomodate Paintshop Pro, and it should be over several hundred megs, and could be much higher.

 

[nihilistic]

Do what anarres said, and make them show system files too while you are at it. Then, starting from the root down, right click each folder and check its size. If any folder is too big, the "rogue file(s)" is/are probably under there.

 

[FredLC]

Unfortunately, It was already done. No good...

I am really going crazy on this. I can't find a reasonable explanation.

 

[nihilistic]

Originally posted by FredLC
Unfortunately, It was already done. No good...

I am really going crazy on this. I can't find a reasonable explanation.

let's get this possibility overwith:
-add up the sizes of every file and folder that is directly under the root
-does that amount equal that of the size of the "used" part of the drive?
-if the two amounts differ, then you have bad sectors.

P.S. keep in mind that operating systems always think 1kb = 1024b, and 1.1 kb is 1.1*1024b, not 1kb+100b.