Rendering to wrong drive- invisible?

3:05PM
I have all rendering, capture, etc going to my 300GB 2nd drive on my SATA bus (G5). Everytime I render, my boot drive gets smaller and smaller. THere are NO documents in the FCP Documents folder in my user folder (/user/Documents/Final Cut Pro Documents). What is going on here? I have searched my drive for any new files by date (today) and nothing shows up for FCP. Nothing of serious size either. Does FCP "cache" any renderings to the boot drive? I have an 80GB boot drive, 2.5 GB RAM, 10.4.3, FCP 5.0.3
3:10PM
I have now lost 2GB on my boot drive. I have searched by date, by size, by type, and by name ("render"). Nothing. I do not get how 2 gigs can go away and have no record via a search. This only happens when I render.
3:20PM
I restarted and gained back all 2GB. So where is this happening?
Day 2
Well now it is only getting worse. I have <1GB on my boot drive. All happened while FCP was rendering. I had 5GB this morning when I started and throughout the day it got smaller and smaller. I have searched every concievable way to find the culprit and I have found nothing. EVEN BY DATE! I am so frustrated now. I am at a stand still. FCP will not render anymore. It did ask to use render manager to delete files. But why? All rendering is done on the 2nd drive. I have >7GB there.
Day 3
Now this is getting way wierd. Although my ssetting specify the location, there is not a project folder for this project, in the render folder. The names of render files are "sequence....". I searched for that everywhere. there is not a file with that name on my boot drive. I searched for "render", nothing. When the render manager came up, I deleted some files and that was immediately reflected on my boot drive by showing more space available. Guys, I give up.

I remember reading a post once by someone who ran into the same thing and I can't remember if he determined it was caused by "human error" (although I don't know how you can even select the FCP app package in FCP System Settings) or a glitch in the default folder setup.
Either way, I would trash the prefs (if you haven't already) and carefully reset your scratch drive then test it out by rendering a few things to make sure they go where they are supposed to.
Out of curiosity. Did your original scratch settings have captures and renders set for different drives or were your captures going the the application package as well?
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Message was edited by: Jay Eneberg2

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