> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was rendering a scene with a huge amount of photons and ran out of space
> on my C: drive at the end of the photon shooting stage and POV-Ray couldn't
> save the photons to a file. POV-Ray and the Windows swapfile are on drive D:
> so I wounder why drive C: ran out of space?
> The photon file was to be writen in the POV directory on D: and there was
> also plenty of swap space there. Does POV-Ray use a temporary working
> directory under Windows (eg. c:\Windows\Temp\)?  If it does, how can I
> change the directory to D:? I couldn't find anything from the help files
> about this.

I don't know if Povray uses the TEMP directory somehow, but anyway that's
a system issue, not something about Povray.  The TEMP/TMP environment
variable should be set to some place where there is enough free space.  No
idea how this is done in WinME though.

Christoph

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