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Title: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: raldo on June 01, 2008, 04:21:46 am

Hello,

I was checking out my system drive to see what accounts for the 14.3GB used space.

7GB is .net (MSDEV stuff) but it It turns out that:

C:\Documents and Settings\[my user]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 12\Library

contains 0.9 GB of data.

Is this the main data base for MC?

Just wondering...

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: Alex B on June 01, 2008, 05:39:29 am

The actual database size should be not be anywhere near 1 GB unless the library is exceptionally huge. Mine is about 23 MB for about 60000 tagged files.

The default folder for the library files is "C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 12\library\" and it should contain only the database (which consists mostly of .jmd files). On my PCs that folder is empty because I use other locations for my libraries.

Check the contents of the other subfolders under "Media Center 12". For instance:

C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 12\Thumbnails\
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 12\Library Backups\

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: gappie on June 01, 2008, 05:45:37 am

what alex says... and there can be a cache folder inside the library folder. how big is that one?

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: leezer3 on June 01, 2008, 11:52:46 am

Sounds like the handheld cache to me  :)
Having said that though, my video thumbnails take up nearly 200mb (20,000 of them!) so this sort of total could easily be achieved with hi-res coverart and large numbers of videos.

Food for thought anyhow.

Cheers

-Leezer-

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: raldo on June 01, 2008, 02:16:10 pm

Oops,

It is the main folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\[my user]\Application Data\J River\Media Center 12
 
-  which contains .9 GB

The .\Library folder contains approx. 0.22 GB
The .\Thumbnails folder contains approx. 0.4 GB
The .\Library Backups contains approx. 0.25 GB
The .\Library\Cache folder contains < 1 MB

I have deleted most of the backups (except for the most recent ones) and I'm down to 0.65 GB for the entire MC folder..

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: Alex B on June 01, 2008, 02:41:34 pm

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The .\Library folder contains approx. 0.22 GB

This is quite large. How many files do you have? Do you use tags that contain long texts like lyrics, reviews etc?

Title: Re: c: drive accounting -- JRiver's library?
Post by: raldo on June 01, 2008, 04:28:28 pm

video 1600 files
audio 72000 files
images 2500 files

No reviews etc, just artist, name, genre, ...