Drive fills with cr_sdk_xxxxxxxxxxx.tmp

Report · Jan 01, 2025

I'm reorganizing my photos as a NY resolution and I have an entire drive of about 2tb of images that needed to be offloaded to RAID backup.
So I created a new catalog and used the move option to put them on the RAID drive.
After about an hour or two I start getting low space warnings on my C drive.
I tracked it down to LRc making this obscenely huge file - 625GB and counting!
This thing is in my user folder.

First off there should be an option to relocate this file to another location.
SSD's are very common for the boot drive and typically only 1 to 2 terabytes.
I have no idea why Microsoft and others like Adobe make the rash assumption that everything needs to get dumped into a USER folder that cannot be easily relocated.
Adobe - how can this get fixed? You allow me to specify a cache drive - why not other hungry settings?

Report · Jan 01, 2025

That temp folder is a part of your Windows OS. And the location is set via the OS, not LrC. It can be relocated.

You can search the Internet on the how.

Report · Jan 01, 2025

Yes and I may have to create a symlink to a different location.
But it also is possible - or should be - to detail how and where LRc uses
disk space. There's literally no need for code to have blackbox ops when
it is as simple as a configuration item. Like I can specify where to put
the libraries and how & where to put the files.
No need to have a "man behind the curtain" doing as it pleases with no
accountability.
Speaking as a developer here.

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