Inspiring

Autosave Bloat

Forum|Forum|1 month ago
April 24, 2026
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I ran a backup of my drive array yesterday and saw a ton of folders with a long ID and “Masks.” In this multicam project I have about a 15 minute segment for one camera that required a tracked mask (which worked very well, though it took forever to plot). Anyway, after 3 days of editing I now have 22GB of Auto Save files with Masks. Each folder is 651MB. (However the Masks folder in the project root folder is over 900MB. What’s up with that?)

This is the first time I’ve seen a Masks folder, I guess this is part of the new masking scheme. Aside from slowing the frequency of updates, is there any way to cut down on mask bloat?

System info
Application: Premiere Pro (Beta) v26.3.0.53
OS: Windows v10.0.26200, RAM: 63.79 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 16

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athletic_fact6385

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This is not only true to the beta but also the main version.

They really have to find a better way for this as it adds an enormous amount of data to the disk. I had as much as 400GB of redundant mask data that way.

There’s also a problem with the way/the location where mask data is saved: Premiere will add a separate folder per project, which also in a problem when saving daily copies of the project files. Why not keep it all in one folder as with the “Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save” folder? Never had any problem with bloat that way.