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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.
Ari-Matti
WinMe, POV 3.5b6, Athlon, 512Mb
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> 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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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmx de>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/
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<ari### [at] tutfi> wrote:
> 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.
Well, where is your scene file? On C or D?
Thorsten
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> Well, where is your scene file? On C or D?
>
On D. Everything Pov needs is on D. But think I know what's going on. While
looking for files created during rendering I noticed new .CPY files in
C:\_RESTORE\TMP. The files whre copies of open documents etc. These _RESTORE
directories are used by VxdMonitor and I suspect this is some kind of a
attempt to prevent data loss, not if but when WinMe crashes. So no need to
accuse POV-Ray, which is btw brilliant.
Ari-Matti
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