How to Remove Temporary Files Created by SonicStage?

[Niteshade]

Hello Regular Inhabitants of this board, am fairly new here and would like a bit of help if it's not too much to ask. Please?

Okay so I just got SonicStage 4.2 the other day since 2.0 was just too old. Used it to burn an ATRAC3plus CD and everything went smooth.

Now the problem, if you can call it that, is I'm just wondering if I'm able to recover the disk space SonicStage used to burn the ATRAC CD. I notice while it was writing to the CD, my HD's GB was plummeting, and I understand this is from converting formats and saving it on my HD incase I burn those same files again (or is it something else?). I just want my disk space back since I'm fairly low on it, and want to know how I can recover the disk space SonicStage used up whilst burning. =/

All helpful comments are appreciated and thanks for your time reading this.

-bows-

[Ishiyoshi]

Welcome to MDCF!

Temporary files are created by SonicStage when creating a CD (usually located within - x:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Local Settings\Temp); thus, the decrease in your HDD capacity. To remove or delete the temporary files, go to "Tools-->Options-->Advanced Settings-->Delete files" (as shown below) within your current version of SonicStage CP.

[Niteshade]

Ah, I shall try that.

I get a dialog box that says "Cannot find the files to be deleted."

[raintheory]

There may be converted/optimized versions of files in:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\SonicStage\Packages\Optimized Files

These usually can be safely deleted if you do not need them.

Edited November 21, 2006 by raintheory

[Niteshade]

Oh, I already noticed that, and it freed up about ~500MB.

I decided to uninstall SonicStage as a last resort. Which spat back out roughly 1.3GB of space. Dunno if I wanna reinstall it again though.

[jonmarcus]

There may be converted/optimized versions of files in:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\SonicStage\Packages\Optimized Files

These usually can be safely deleted if you do not need them.

Hi Raintheory. Just stumbled across this post and as I've had a fairly similar issue I thought I would see if you could advise (I have put a separate post on this forum but as yet have not had a reply).

I 've tried deleting certain tracks in My Library and also checked the box to delete them from my hard drive (to save disk space).

The following message appears:

"If you delete the tracks from the computer, you cannot restore them again. Tracks transferred to device/media cannot be transferred to the computer. Are you sure you want to delete the tracks?"

What does this mean? I'm sure I have deleted previous tracks from both My Library and the hard disk without this message coming up (but can't be sure).

For example - Does this mean that if I delete a track from the computer that I will not be able to import that track in the future from the same CD?

Is this a DRM issue? I thought SS3.4 got rid of DRM problems.

Also, it appears that the file in the All Users/Sonicstage/Packages directory that is roughly the same size as the file in My Library, and so presumably uses up the same amount of disk space again. In the interests of saving disk space I would be really grateful for any advice. Many thanks.

[A440]

For example - Does this mean that if I delete a track from the computer that I will not be able to import that track in the future from the same CD?

It's not that scary. It's only saying that if you take the file off your hard drive....then it's not on the hard drive. Your standard delete message, garbled by Sony.

The thing about restoring means restoring from the minidisc. You can't download the track from My Library to a disc as a NetMD track, delete it from the computer, and then upload the NetMD track back from the disc. The lame-brained idea is to prevent music copying. Which can be accomplished much more easily with any CD burner anyway.

If it's your own recording on the disc--not a NetMD download--you can always upload it (since SS 3.2, I think).

And if you own the CD, you can always import the track. SonicStage doesn't remember and doesn't care.

[jonmarcus]

It's not that scary. It's only saying that if you take the file off your hard drive....then it's not on the hard drive. Your standard delete message, garbled by Sony.

The thing about restoring means restoring from the minidisc. You can't download the track from My Library to a disc as a NetMD track, delete it from the computer, and then upload the NetMD track back from the disc. The lame-brained idea is to prevent music copying. Which can be accomplished much more easily with any CD burner anyway.

If it's your own recording on the disc--not a NetMD download--you can always upload it (since SS 3.2, I think).

And if you own the CD, you can always import the track. SonicStage doesn't remember and doesn't care.

Thanks very much indeed A440. That was pretty much what I had hoped. Garbled Sony message indeed! It seems the message is referring to NetMD and/or versions up to SS3.2. I have NH900 and SS3.4 so this means unlimited uploads are possible from MD device if I want.