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[Psych0HoliC]

Hi

For some reason a set of 16 temp files is created on my store drive (D:\) when i start up PS. its not the scratch drive. that is located on my ramdrive. these files are named "****_********_MVM_*.tmp" where the first and second line of stars is a random number while the last star is the numbers from 0 to 15. all the 16 files will be named the same but whith a different count at the end.

this is really bugging me since that disk is for storing ONLY (eco green crap 2tb drive), and it looks ugly to. anyway, all the temp files are at 0kb and i cant seem to find any way to 'fill them' so i have no idea what they are for.

what i want is to move them to a specific folder or at least another drive. A:\ in my case

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Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0 (12.0x20100407 [20100407.r.1103 2010/04/07:14:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64 (CS5 Extended)
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Built-in memory: 8183 MB
Free memory: 4488 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7183 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 55 %
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: A:\Temp\USERTE~1\
Scratch volume(s): A:\, 2,00G, 1,91G free  (RAMDRIVE)

C drive 25gb free (ssd)

D drive 1,5tb free (store)

[AznGothic]

I've read almost this entire thread (skipping parts about windows indexing) and it seems this hasn't been solved yet?

I have 3 internal hard drives and 1 external hard drive. My C drive is 320GB SATA I Western Digital 8MB cache, D is 320GB SATA I Western Digital 8MB cache, F is 750GB SATA II Western Digital Green 16MB cache and my external is a 2TB USB2.0 Seagate drive. Photoshop is configured to use F as the scratch drive and Windows is configured to point both TEMP and TMP to C:\Temp. My C drive has 43GB of free space, D has 13GB of free space, F has 358GB of free space and my external has 1TB of free space. My external drive goes to sleep if not being used as with most externals. As long as my external is plugged in, Photoshop writes the MVM files to it. I do not have any plugins installed (that I am aware of) and Photoshop only writes the MVM files if I open an image. First starting PS does nothing. If I open a JPG or BMP file I get MVM files on my external drive. If I disconnect my external drive before opening anything, it will default the MVM files to my F drive (config'd as scratch drive). When it writes the MVM files to my external, I get 16 files. With my external unplugged, I only see 6 MVM files on my F drive and 1 MVM file in my C:\Temp folder.

Now I don't mind the whole "slow down" with PS while it waits for my external to spin up. What I do mind though is that, as others stated, it looks ugly. But mainly that after PS does this, I can not disconnect my external the "safe" way by having Windows shut it off first. Even after I close PS. When I close PS, it will delete the MVM files off of my external but my external is still marked as "In use by another program." I never have problems disconnecting my external if I don't start up PS. It is only after I start up PS and it writes the MVM files to the drive that I can not disconnect my external.

Are there any solutions on how to get the MVM files to write to my scratch drive (or any othe drive for that matter) even if my external is plugged in? It seems like PS is looking for the largest drive or most free space to write to.

[ELC Infosec]

I'd like to chime in that I ran similar experiments (starting PhotoShop without the external drive connected.).  I got the same results.  It is odd that more MVM files get created on the external drive when it is connected than on the internal drive. 

[Astraion]

If you have Bridge active, try closing it / exit and watch those files dissapear.

[ablichter]

If you have Bridge active, try closing it / exit and watch those files dissapea

It has nothing to do with Bridge or Photoshop in particular. This MVM files are generated by some Photoshop filters, in other words by 8BFs files. So Lens Blur and Vanishing Point will create them, but USM not.

I get those files on C:\, D:\ and (in the picture) partition M:\ and N:\ - most files are on M:\  (to the left)

2844_ = PhotoImpact

4960_ = irfanView

3380_ = Photoshop

I launched Lens Blur or Vanishing Point, whatever is compatible with the host.

The first number is the PID (process identifier) of e.g. PS - check taskmanager

They should be removed when the filter ended its work, was canceld or latest when the Host (PS, Irfan view, Photo Impact etc.) was closed, but sometimes they are not.

ps

by this I believe it is initiated by a method in the 8BF and not to change by settings in the host programm or the OS

pps

For those who do not know: you can use some PS Filters in other programs (so called Hosts) like Irfanview, PhotoImpact, etc...

[km79]

I've the same problem:

If I connect my Backup-USB-HDD, Bridge writes about 20 tmp files directly on it.

I don't want this. I want Bridge to store its tmp files if it needs them on one definded location (and this should never be the root of any disk).

My settings are:

in edit/preferences/cache:

C:\Users\Konrad\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS5\Cache\

and in edit/camera raw preferences:

C:\Users\Konrad\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRAW\Cache\

But I find the .tmp-Files also under

E:\

F:\

and on USB-Disks