On 27 July 2006 22:46, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 22:47, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I
> > can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it
> > stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home
> > and presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in
> > my home directory didn't reveal anything.
> >
> > It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody?
>
> If you started avidemux from within your desktop environment you might want
> to check ~/.xsession-errors
> I've seen this file grow very large in the past.

Yeah, I saw that. It was about 36G, and I removed it. Still the harddisk 
remained full. What I did not take into account was that that file was still 
open. So it didn't get erased from the harddrive. Logging out and in again 
solved the problem.

Stupid me!

On the other hand, this kind of behaviour makes avidemux unusable. 

Uwe

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