carguyshu 0 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I just installed MB3 and have a 60GB SSD that was about 1/2 full prior to upgrading from MB2. Is MB3 suppose to take up this much room? Every time I clear space up on the drive by deleting things the next day the thing is back full with less than 1GB free space. I have the box checked to download metadata to media folders so I'm unclear why this program is taking up more space than windows. Please help.
ebr 16169 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 We cache a lot of data but my server directory is still under 7GB. Try turning off chapter image extraction.
Logos302 86 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 7gb wow mines 20gb, 13gb of that is cache. 3gb is data and 2gb is ImagesByName. the Larges of the directories are : Cache 7gb - Resized Images 6gb - Enhanced Images Data 2.3 - Extracted Video Images.
Luke 42077 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 it does get cleaned up gradually. but mb3 is fast and strong caching is one of the ways to accomplish that
Koleckai Silvestri 1154 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 You could move your appdata\roaming\media browser server directory to another drive using a directory or "hard" link in Windows.
Airbender 128 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 You could move your appdata\roaming\media browser server directory to another drive using a directory or "hard" link in Windows. Hi i thought that method was not recommended + last new i heard that this issue will be corrected not sure what the status of this now
Koleckai Silvestri 1154 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I don't think the application will ever know the difference. It asks for the directory as normal and Windows gives it the location you want it to. New here so haven't seen any recommendations against it.
Airbender 128 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I don't think the application will ever know the difference. It asks for the directory as normal and Windows gives it the location you want it to. New here so haven't seen any recommendations against it. No worries that method is ok i used to use it and in old fourm we had a post with screenshots show people step by step on how to do it for first time but most advance users stop using it as some dev said they going to work on it and correct it. but again it went from 40 GB files to 7 GB as ebr said so that is huge cut back to be honest and btw welcome to media browser 3
Logos302 86 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I have lots of space for it so I'm not worried but not everyone has 40gb of free space on there servers..
Airbender 128 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I don't have that much space I have 29 GB left on my SSD Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
ebr 16169 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I'm not sure what there is to "correct" here. We are caching things aggressively on purpose and having that cache on the fastest possible medium is a big plus. I understand with large libraries this can strain small SSDs but we are trying to work best for the largest percentage of situations. You can move your IBN now. If you want to get tricky with the OS then you can try the hard link technique. That may be the best method for people with large libraries and small main disks. I'm not sure we will ever allow moving some of those cache locations because we need to be sure they are accessible and fast. Directly allowing someone to point them somewhere else opens us up to lots of potential issues.
Logos302 86 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 Maybe a cache size limiter for those with out large drive or have it us a percentage of unallocated space might be a good solution for them. I personal would rather it faster and use more, but I'm not using an SSD so I'm not limited by size, my problem is speed .
gthrift 64 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I had a problem running out of space after messing around with CoverArt and trying different treatments. I think my cache folder was 20gb. I ended up deleting it and letting it start over from scratch. Now it's only 4gb. 1
ebr 16169 Posted December 12, 2013 Posted December 12, 2013 I had a problem running out of space after messing around with CoverArt and trying different treatments. I think my cache folder was 20gb. I ended up deleting it and letting it start over from scratch. Now it's only 4gb. Yes, that is a good point. If you play with a lot of different CA treatment styles then this will build up your cache. It will eventually clear itself out but that could take a few weeks. You can always delete the enhanced-images folder and then just let them all re-build.
carguyshu 0 Posted December 13, 2013 Author Posted December 13, 2013 I don't use coverart & have a collection of about 1100 movies. I don't have image extraction on for chapters. Should I buy a larger SSD or should I just wait & hope that the size goes down? I can't imagine its good to have less than 1 GB of free space left on the main drive.
Airbender 128 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 In a future release i"ll add some statistics to teh dashboard page that show how much space is being used, as well as a way to empty it out. Hi that would be very help full
Luke 42077 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 well it sounds like you haven't actually hunted down what folder is taking up the most space. in the event it's something fixable it doesn't make sense to throw money at it until you figure that out
Logos302 86 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 treesize can also do it for you they have a free and paid version.
Luke 42077 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 In a future release i"ll add some statistics to teh dashboard page that show how much space is being used, as well as a way to empty it out. 6
Airbender 128 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 hi spacemonger is software that can easily show which directory is talking the largest space in the drive so here you go: http://www.sixty-five.cc/ http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/ Hope this help
Airbender 128 Posted December 13, 2013 Posted December 13, 2013 Right on Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Airbender 128 Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 You could move your appdata\roaming\media browser server directory to another drive using a directory or "hard" link in Windows. Hi does anyone renumber where is the link in old forum about Hard link a drive to move MB files over ?
CashMoney 94 Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html That one?
Koleckai Silvestri 1154 Posted December 14, 2013 Posted December 14, 2013 http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html That one? Nice little tool. I've just used the mklink command line utility in the past. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.htm
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