What is "delete rendered files'

What does the delet rendered files on closing a project in the prefences mean. Is it a good thing to have checked or not.
I checked the user manual and it say nothing about it.
Nathan

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PE12 - "Deleting Rendered Files" Confusion...

Thanks in advance for any assistance from anybody!
If i click on "Delete Rendered Files For All Projects"...does that delete rendered files even to the point of deleting my final video creations that i have "saved" or "saved as" in the program itself???
In other words do i run the risk of losing the videos i've created in PE12 if i proceed with a "Delete Rendered Files For All Projects" command???
Why are rendered files even kept and consume computer memory...i thought it was only a procedure to catch up with itself and make the video you are working on play more smoothly.
Many thanks again...

You are correct is saying that rendered files make the video play more smoothly.
Rendered files are preview files, when you edit a portion of your timeline(like apply effect, transition, etc.) you will see a somewhat jerky and blurry playback, to have a look at how your final video will look and play you can render only a small portion by setting the workbar area over that area. It will obviously take less time than exporting the whole video every time you make an edit.

What is the "iTunesControl" file on my iPod, and what does deleting it affect?

Hello,
I just bought an iPod Classic 160GB Slim (newest model), and I'm using it in manual sync mode on my Windows 7 PC with iTunes 11. I just noticed that it has a file named "iTunesControl" (149 MB large) residing in the "ROOT\iPod_Control\iTunes\" folder. In contrast, the iTunesDB file in the same location is only 52 KB. It's worth to note that I have only put a double disc album (27 songs totalling around 144 MB) on the iPod so far.
I found various posts online indicating that the "iTunesControl" file is usually around 20 MB in size, so why is mine 149 MB? Is this normal??
Also, what does this file do anyway? And will it balloon in size as I add more music to the iPod? What would deleting this file affect?
Thank you for your help.

It's not usual, or necessary for you to be looking in the Root folder of an iPod. If you delete a file like that, don't be surprised if your iPod stops working. One thing you will notice (in the capacity bar shhown when you connect the iPod to iTunes) is that some space on the iPod is used by "Other". This is data that the iPod uses for control etc. and its size does vary, and change. The only time you need to do anything about the "Other" is if the space it's taking up on your iPod exceeds 1GB or so. (Especially when you have a 160GB iPod with just 27 albums on it.)
Use iTunes to manage your iPod - it will do everything you need.
My advice is that you learn to use the Sync method (no such thing as manual sync) to manage your iPod.
Import your music into iTunes
Edit any of the music information you need to, in iTunes
Create, alter/mange your Playlists in iTunes.
Connect your iPod to iTunes and allow a Sync to occur.
Eject your iPod
Use your iPod
Subsequently:
Add new music, albums, songs and any other media to your iTunes Library.
Edit the data in iTunes
Change your Playlists to add the new songs and remove other songs etc.
Connect iPod to iTunes and allow the Sync to occur.
Eject your iPod
Use your iPod.
Ongoing:
Have a play with things such as Smart Playlists and leearn how they work and how much you might like using them.

What does 'include render files' option mean for when I duplicate a project. I deselected it and the duplicated file is very slow so maybe this has affected it. It's a shame cause original project is deleted. Have I lost the rendered files? Thanks

What does 'include render files' option mean for when I duplicate a project. I deselected it and the duplicated file is very slow so maybe this has affected it. It's a shame cause original project is deleted. Have I lost the rendered files? Thanks

Yes, if you duplicate without the render files and delete the original project you lose the render files. But render files get recreated - automatically if you have it set in the preferences (which is the default option). It just takes time.

Since Maverick update, when I try to share a video I get Error 1 frame. I have duplicated the project, I have deleted all rendered files. I have tried it several times and always gives me a different frame.

Since Maverick update, when I try to share a video I get Error 1 and a frame number. I have duplicated the project and tried to share. I have deleted all rendered files and then render again. I deleted all rendered and then tried to share it before rendering. Nothing works. I shared the project a couple of weeks ago and was fine. I only changed a small clip and can't share to burn a dvd.

What software version? What computer?
Trash preferences. Switch off background rendering. Trash project and event render files. Do not render. Export. Do not do anything on the computer during export. Make sure App Nap is switched off in the Finder.

Rendering Files Deleted by...?

Something truly effed up just happened and I'm curious to know if this is a problem with Final Cut or xmas gremlins.
I'm working on an FCE project with source files on an external drive. The drive filled up so I set project settings to point to a local drive for the rendering. I'm working on an hour-long video, which with downconverting and editing takes several hours to completely render, so I left it running overnight and went to bed.
An oh-so-helpful roommate saw the laptop idle (it had finished rendering) so he closed it. Evidently, putting a macbook in sleep mode causes the external drive to disconnect. And evidently disconnecting the source drive for an active FCE project ****** FCE off tremendously. And FCE gets spiteful and mean and exacts revenge by deleting all of your rendered files. So when I awoke, I'd lost every last one of my rendered files from the weekend. Not just the latest one, ALL of them!
On the plus side, it freed up a lot of local disk space. But between the tears, I'm also curious - how is this possible? What, exactly, happened? Which step in the chain caused this wanton destruction and was there any way to recover from it? The files weren't even in the trash - they just winked out of existence.

Have your roommate pay the FULL rent for the next three months. While that won't answer your question, it might help to keep this from happening again.
-DH

Okay so I set up my Time Capsule already and is now backing up 2 of my iMacs. Works great. What I want to know is how to use the TC to directly store files? I want to do this to delete some files but still have them on the TC for future reference..

Okay so I set up my Time Capsule already and is now backing up 2 of my iMacs. Works great. What I want to know is how to use the TC to directly store files? I want to do this to delete some files on iMac 20inch but still have them on the TC for future reference..eg some movies on iTunes. I want to directly save them on the drive so I can delete them from iTunes and gain some storage. (Ps on iMac 20 inch (it's almost full - 320 GB) when I enter time machine, a tab comes up on finder which reads "Time Machine backups" it's able to be ejected like a disc or a connected device. On the iMac 20 inch, I dragged some files onto there as if using it like a hard drive. Is this the correct method? Then I went to my 27inch iMac and saw the "Time Machine Backups" hoping to see the files I dragged from the 20inch iMac. But the files were not there except a folder that said "Backups.backupdb". Can someone help me?

It's not a good idea to use a network disk for both Time Machine backups and other things. By design Time Machine will eventually consume all the space on its output disk, which will then cause problem for your other files. I'd store those other files on an external disk connected to the Time Capsule. The problem with that is that Time Machine will only back up files that are local to your Mac. That means that you'll only have one copy of the files on or attached to your Time Capsule.
By the way, you've been misled by poor field labeling on this forum into typing a large part of your message into the field intended for the subject. In the future just type a short summary of your post into that field and type the whole message into the field below that.

What are the iphoto files I need to restore iphoto library deleted from drive

A few days ago my hard drive started making noises and I was getting all sorts of errors. I even got errors trying to do a time machine backup with the final error being "backup failed".
Earlier last week I imported a couple hundred photos of my kids from Christmas to present which also included our vacation last month. I deleted the photos from my camera after the import. Then foolishly, I didn't think to do any time machine backups between then and the time my hard drive started making noise.
I bought a new SSD drive. I could still access the bad drive so I moved my pictures directory from the bad drive to the new drive. It took nearly two hours. It appeared to have moved everything, but it did not move the iphoto library. The pictures directory is gone from the old hard drive.
I purchased FileSalvage and recoved thousands of deleted jpg files from my old drive, but none appear to be the pictures I lost.
It appears that FileSalvage will recover specific file types. There doesn't seem to be a way to just tell it to recover the deleted "pictures" directory or recover "iphoto library".
If I was able to specify specific file names to restore, what files would I even need to specify? I have iphoto 11.
I came across an article about iphoto library files from iphoto 6 and previous versions which explained the following iphoto files: library.iphoto6, albumdata.xml, Thumb32Segment.data, Thumb64Segment.data, ThumbJPGSegment.data, etcxxxxx.
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Does iphoto 11 use similar file names? I'm not concerned with keeping my iphoto database in tact. I just want my pictures.
Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. Any advice on how to get my pictures back would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
MH

Simply, you can't recover the iPhoto Library. What you need to do is try recover the Photos that were in it. These will be saved as jpeg files* and that's what you need to search for. Recovering all the other files will do no good. You won't be alble to reconstruct the Library. Your aim is to get the Photos and then start over.
The search may find many files of the same name, try to recover the largest files - they are most likely to be your originals.
Regards
TD
*Assuming you're not shooting Raw. If you are shooting Raw then you'll know the suffix for your camera. If none of that makes sense then you're not shooting Raw

HT4847 On startup my macbookair says start up disk full/delete some files. When I look at storage disk utility I see 51GB of a possible 60GB is used with Other. What is Other? and how can I view and delete some of these files?

On startup my macbookair says start up disk full/delete some files. When I look at storage disk utility I see 51GB of a possible 60GB is used with Other. What is Other? and how can I view and delete some of these files?

A MacBook will use Time Machine to make local backups so that when connected to an external drive it will backup a lot faster.
to disable this, you must use a command under terminal.
to locate terminal, do a search for it under spotlight (the magnifying glass on the top right corner), should be the first hit.
once under terminal, type the following text exactly:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
hit enter.
you will be asked to input your password, if you do not have a password, you will have to create one before performing this command. after entering your password, hit enter again and close terminal.
in a few minutes the space taken up by time machine should be cleared.

How to delete unwanted background rendered files ?

In the timeline, we naturally made many changes over and over again.
And if everytime we made changes in the timeline, FCPX renders it to ProRes 422, then our ext HDD will be very fast fill up of unwanted rendered files. How do we delete these files ?
My Rendering background has been turn on from day one !
Thanks

Ian R. Brown wrote:
From page 401 of the FCP X 10.0.6 Manual:-
Delete render files to free up disk space
Project and clip render files are stored in your Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects folders. Over time, these files can accumulate and take up disk space. If you want to free up hard disk space, you can either delete unused render files or delete all of the render files for a particular compound clip or Final Cut Pro project.
Delete project render files
1 Select a project in the Project Library.
2 Choose File > Delete Project Render Files.
3 In the window that appears, choose to delete Unused Render Files Only or All Render Files, and click OK.
Delete event render files
1 Select an event in the Event Browser.
2 Choose File > Delete Event Render Files.
3 In the window that appears, choose to delete Unused Render Files Only or All Render Files, and click OK.
Thank you, Ian !

I need free space in my hard disk-- i want to delete all files. i want to leave my mac book like the first time.. what must to do ?

i want delete all files and leave my mac book pro like the first time. i have system 10.7.5 , i have lot of files and need memory.. what must to do ?

Install or Reinstall Mavericks or Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Erase and reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.

What is a .BAK file & can I safely delete it?

In doing a workaround to solve a stutter problem in iMovie 4, my .iMovieProj files got completely out of whack. (Yes, I had more than one .iMovieProj file for my project. That's another story.) I had to go to my external backup disk to retrieve an .iMovieProj file. Because it would be better to keep the entire folder intact, rather than just put the .iMovieProj file into the current folder, I copied the entire project folder to my Desktop.
I deleted the current project folder and moved the Desktop folder into the iMovie folder, so now I have a previous, intact project folder, albeit a bit out of date, but at least all my videos & audios are there.
Anyway, as I updated my project, I noticed in the Movies window I had open on the desktop, that a file: <projectname>.BAK would appear & disappear. The project name was a bit altered. I think the file appeared & disappeared when I did a save, which I now do often.
What's going on? Should I delete this file when it shows again, or just ignore it & let iMovie 4 manage it, as apparently it's doing? On my last save, the file is not there, but it may show up, again. BTW, I noticed that the file decreased in size at one point. It's a small file, now, about 8KB as I recall.

Just let iMovie manage it.
When an application saves a document it's a bad idea to delete or empty the old one first and then write the new one. What if something goes wrong? A power outage or what ever.
The proper way is to keep the old (original) file until the new one has been completely written and THEN delete it. It seems as iMovie keeps the original under the <projectname>.BAK name until the new file is written.

Can i get back the backup file what i deleted on icloud?

Can i get back the backup file what i deleted on icloud?please, help me. thanks

You can't. iSync has been discontinued since Mac OS 10.7 Lion. iSync has no connection with iCloud anyway.

If I delete a file in iCloud, what happens to the local file in ~/Library/Mobile Documents ?

If I delete a file in iCloud, what happens to the local file in ~/Library/Mobile Documents ? Does it get deleted to?
Hope somebody can help.
Thx.

I'm pretty certain that it gets deleted as well. If you try and open that mobile documents folder, it takes you to the iCloud drive folder. I've been searching for this same issue for the last 24 hours also as I inadvertently deleted my Keynote files stored on iCloud drive thinking I was just temporarily deleting Keynote from my iPad when upgrading to the latest iOS 8 version. (I needed space and thought, "Oh, I'll just reinstall later... Turns out I was in the iCloud storage area, not in my iPad storage area at the time and therefore deleted all my iCloud stored presentations. From every device.)

I cannot download Mavericks. Every time the file download stops a message appears that says the file is damaged and cannot be used to install Mavericks. I delete the file, download again and the same message appears. What can I do?

I cannot download Mavericks. Every time the file download stops a message appears that says the file is damaged and cannot be used to install Mavericks. I delete the file, download again and the same message appears. What can I do?

I only have one video project that I ever published to iDisk. It didn't have any music or photo files attatched to it, just a few clips stitched together. I can play these clips right now in the Event Library (so I know the source files are on my computer), but strangely, under the Project Library, the project is not there. I'm almost certain that I didn't store the project on iDisk; I just completed the video and published it to iDisk (as a .mov file I think) for family to see. I've tried to figure out how to get iDisk to stop looking for this project to no avail.
I don't know if others have experienced this, but if I click on any project and on the menu bar select Share --> Remove From --> Media Browser... it lists iPod, iPhone, iPad, tv, Computer and MobileMe. Why would MobileMe be an option here? This is the case for any video project I select. Didn't iLife '11 and/or OSX 10.8 remove all mention of MobileMe? I wonder if this is part of the problem too.
Edit: I just removed every project I have from the Media Browser. Still no luck.

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