Mastercam "local settings" temp folder.

[?Mark]

This temp folder is in addition to the one located in the MC folder. It's located in "documents and settings"/"local settings" folder.

I use a pc with a 75 gig hd at my work and I went from 50 gig of available space to less than a gig in less than 2 weeks.

Needless to say my pc become useless...

Here is what seems to be happening:

I've been working on some very complicated thin walled tubes. Regeneration times are very long and very often I'd get out of regeneration by pressing "escape" (to make some refinements to toolpath parameters). Those are mostly finish contour and flowline 5 axis toolpaths. It seems that everytime I escaped from "regenerating" MC created very big files in a "local setings" folder that eat up my hd in a matter of several days.

Has anyone else seen it?

Aside from manually deleting it, is there a way for mc to purge this folder?

Thanks

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I never looked until now, but mine has 4.7gb. There is a mastercam folder in the temp folder and it has 3.07gb in it

[?Mark]

Mine was 50 gig

[Chris Rizzo]

Go into config > toolpath settings and adjust the keep regen files parameters to what you'd like.

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Go into config > toolpath settings and adjust the keep regen files parameters to what you'd like.

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After this adjustment, can the temp files that are already there be deleted?

[EazyE]

Commodore VIC 20

1.0227 mHz

5 kb ram

13" CRT 16 color (res 174x184)

Cassette Tape Drive

Atari 2600 joystick

 

Cris - That thing must scream.

[?Mark]

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Go into config > toolpath settings and adjust the keep regen files parameters to what you'd like.

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those are not the same reg files (they're in the mc folder). The one I'm talking about are in a totally different place and are not controlled by those settings as far as I can tell.

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

Hi guys,

 

I logged this as bug number cnc00051304. Thank you.

[Slydman]

Temporally process could be using a script file like batch file and execute "del C:McamX3commontemp*.*" inside.

 

So by executing this file will erase the file in the specified path.

[Slydman]

Chris

Thank you for logging this issue.

 

 

Sorry that will delete files from 'temp' folder only.

 

The following command should be used instead

 

RMDIR /S/Q C:McamX3commontemp

md C:McamX3commontemp

 

 

/s: include all subdirectories

/q: will NOT prompt before delete

 

That will completely delete 'temp' folder without prompting and ask question if you want to delete or not in each folder.

 

And make new directory called 'temp'.