Rendering in DAZ Studio 4.11+ & DS took 19GB space that was free???!!!

nonesuch00

Rendering in DAZ Studio 4.11+ when I had about 21GB free on a 1.81TB sshd drive that I save my renders to & store all my content library to. It is an internal D: drive. DAZ Studio itself is installed on my C: but the documents folder it users is also on my D: drive.

Sometime during the render disk space free decrease from about 21GB free to only 1.97GB free. I canceled the render & exited DAZ but that didn't free up the 18GB disk space. I did change iRay render optimization from speed to memory but I don't know if that was the cause of the problem because I didn't notice disk space had almost disappeared. It was 21GB as recently as this morning.

How can I get this 19GB back! Is it maybe hidden in Windows swap to file? I've already run disk cleanup but that finds notice because it's not a file(s) under management by the Windows OS.

Thanks.

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OK, I found that rebooting freed actually 39GB total so quite a massive amount...and it doesn't get freed until reboot makes me think it must be Windows swap file.

Fishtales

It might be in the Temp folder for Studio. Running it in Speed puts all the Instances into memory, I don't know about images, and under Memory it keeps them on disc and runs then from there so saves memory if you don't have much.