HT4007 Where are the cache files or temporary files stored?

I was rendering a slideshow of 253 pictures (approximately 4MB each) and I watched the available drive space on my MacBook Pro go from 23 GB available right down to zero. The rendering did not finish and an error message came on the screen to let me know. When I first clicked 'Export', I chose to save the finished slideshow to an external drive formatted for MacOS. I also chose to save it as 1080p QuickTime .mov file.
This is my first time using Aperture and am puzzled as to why it used up that much drive space in my MacBook Pro. I thought that it was hanging on to some unfinished render files so I quit Aperture and restarted my MacBook Pro but now I only see that I regained about 2 GB out of my original 23GB.
Is it correct for me to assume that there are cache files or temporary files still present somewhere? If so, please tell me where so I can delete them and restore my available internal drive space on my MacBook Pro to 23 GB again.
Why did it use up so much of my internal drive space when I actually told Aperture to save the finished slideshow file to an external drive?
Please help. Thanks.

Aperture has two cache directories that uses regularly
In your user library: ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Aperture/
At System Level: There are temporary file written to a hidden area, that you can open from the Terminal by referring the system varaiable $TMPDIR.
Open a Terminal window and enter the following command:
open $TMPDIR
This will open a terminal Window showin this hidden cache. I found the partially rendered movies in a subfolder called something like "TemporaryItems"
Why did it use up so much of my internal drive space when I actually told Aperture to save the finished slideshow file to an external drive?
The final movie will be saved to the destination you named, but Aperture needs working space for partial renderings and as much RAM as it can get. The OS will swap other applications to a swapping area of the ystem drive to free RAM for Aperture.
Another problem could be that the destination drive you want to write to temporarily went offline. Then aperture will write to $TMPDIR instead. Check the permissions on your external volume and the connection. Is it a Network volume? This is risky, of you need a stable connection for a long render time. In that case connect the external volume directly.
Regards
Léonie

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