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WolfSZ78
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November 3, 2022
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After Effects is acting like a Decompression Bomb

  • November 3, 2022
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In short, After Effects is acting like a decompression bomb virus, by that I mean that the cache is filling up hundreds of gigabytes of space on my hard drive within a day or two, and sometimes this is leading to a complete system crash. Clearing it today, the AE cache folder located under AppData\Local\Temp\Adobe weighed in at over 300 GB.

 

To clarify, I haven't had this issue with After Effects until version 22.6, and now I have to go in and clean the cache on a bi-weekly basis so my computer won't crash. If I don't, and I go to render something, I quickly get a BSOD.  It's done this on both large resource-heavy projects and much smaller simpler animations. I'm running a PC with an i9-10885H CPU and 32 GB of RAM, all my software is up to date, as well as all of my drivers.

 

Is there a way to curb down the cache folders so they don't eat up my entire hard drive?

Is this an issue with the software?

Is anyone else having this issue?

Is there anything I can do?

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nishu_kush
nishu_kush
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November 3, 2022

Thanks for writing in, WolfSZ78.

I haven't seen this issue before. How much storage is left on your drive where After Effects is storing cache? What happens if you lower the amount of Maximum Disk Cache Size? Does it still cause crash? Also, can you try changing the location of the cache to a different drive?

Let us know how it goes.

 

Thanks,

Nishu

ShiveringCactus
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ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2022

I've not noticed anything different since upgrading.  I have all my cache folders pointed to the same space.  And set the limit in Edit > Preferences > Media & Disk Cache. I'd also reccomend not having your cache on your local C Drive.  If at all possible have it on a secondary drive - that way you can give it a lot of space.

I still regularly have to clear the cache.  I picked up a tip from Texture Labs, which was to set a keyboard shortcut - it speeds up the process a tiny amount and certainly makes it easier to do regularly.

I've had AE crashes before due to hard drive space, but the only time I get blue screens have been due to conflicts with the graphics card.  Not saying it can't happen, it just hasn't happened to me.  

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