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Legend
December 28, 2017
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Does "Ch Data" need backing up?

  • December 28, 2017
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My "Ch Data" directory is now 1.9GB in size. I am trying to use Adobe Cloud to backup my project files, but I don't really want to use 1.9GB of storage if this just contains scratch files. I set media encoding to use a different directory for temporary files (so temp files are not uploaded to the cloud). Does "Ch Data" need to be backed up? If not, is there some other setting to move Ch Data outside the project so I can use Adobe Cloud to backup my project files and nothing else? Thanks!

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    Dan Ramirez
    Inspiring
    January 2, 2018

    The Ch Data folder contains most of your project(footage and recordings will be in Ch Media). Within Ch Data, temp.noindex contains temporary files that CH can rebuild. repo.noindex is absolutely essential.

    1.9gb sounds really really large though. Any chance you're saving footage or exports into that directory?

    alank99101739
    alank99101739Author
    Legend
    January 3, 2018

    I am not exporting clips or anything to that directory. Its all generated by Adobe.

    So its sounds like a product feature request would be to allow the generated temp directory to be kept someone other than the project, so I don't waste my Creative Cloud disk space allocation (and upload bandwidth) on temp files.

    The temp.noindex directory seems to mainly come from the "textures" directory, which is lots of images files of all the different parts of the artwork of the puppets.

    $ du -h temp.noindex/

    633M    temp.noindex/compiler/sources/textures

    738M    temp.noindex/compiler/sources

    738M    temp.noindex/compiler

    114M    temp.noindex/WarpCache

    852M    temp.noindex/

    Browsing the directory it seems like there are lots of duplicate files in there (different file name, same image).

    But there are also lots of tempNNNN.noindex/ directories. Can I safely delete these? Can I recover disk space by deleting the temp.noindex directory as well?

    $ du -hs *

    39M     repo.noindex

    852M    temp.noindex

    20M     temp10104.noindex

    17M     temp13384.noindex

    18M     temp13816.noindex

    13M     temp13884.noindex

    14M     temp13904.noindex

    12M     temp14768.noindex

    14M     temp15212.noindex

    20M     temp16048.noindex

    28M     temp18716.noindex

    8.0M    temp21552.noindex

    18M     temp21572.noindex

    16M     temp21584.noindex

    14M     temp21752.noindex

    18M     temp21784.noindex

    13M     temp21884.noindex

    17M     temp22064.noindex

    11M     temp22448.noindex

    14M     temp22984.noindex

    14M     temp23436.noindex

    185K    temp25044.noindex

    19M     temp25944.noindex

    14M     temp26464.noindex

    16M     temp26896.noindex

    13M     temp30512.noindex

    13M     temp3852.noindex

    21M     temp46640.noindex

    18M     temp48184.noindex

    20M     temp5000.noindex

    28M     temp57584.noindex

    15M     temp57608.noindex

    18M     temp60768.noindex

    21M     temp60800.noindex

    15M     temp61288.noindex

    15M     temp61648.noindex

    16M     temp61664.noindex

    21M     temp61728.noindex

    24M     temp63072.noindex

    18M     temp63128.noindex

    18M     temp63480.noindex

    15M     temp63572.noindex

    15M     temp63668.noindex

    15M     temp64024.noindex

    5.2M    temp64312.noindex

    16M     temp65844.noindex

    16M     temp66284.noindex

    19M     temp7104.noindex

    13M     temp9100.noindex

    18M     temp9876.noindex

    Thanks!

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    Dan Ramirez
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018

    "Can I recover disk space by deleting the temp.noindex directory as well?"

    The entire temp.noindex folder can be safely deleted. Of course, if you open the project, it will be regenerated exactly where it was. Doing a "Save As" will basically do the same thing and that's how we'd recommend users create a copy of their project without extra temp files.

    You do raise an interesting point about whether or not we should eventually add an option to put these temp files in a cache directory somewhere. Other Adobe apps do this with other types of media cache files.

    Feel free to contact me directly if you'd like to be included in our private beta. It sounds like your use of the app stresses the app more than most, so if you'd like to be in more direct contact with the dev team, that might be a good option.

    Thanks,
    Dan R.
    CH QA

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