Antti Laiti wrote:
Hi,
I cannot find any setting to change the working directory of Express Scribe. By default it is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\NCH Swift Sound\Scribe
The problem here is that I don't have very much free disk space in my C: drive and the temporary .wav files Scribe uses are rather big. Windows keeps on complaining about the full C: drive.
I have also tried to search the Windows register for this settings without any success.
There are two (maybe 3) things you can do, to clean up big files on your hdd: 1) with respect to Scribe, in the C:\documents and settings\...\scribe\current folder are your wav files, which you can delete completely either by going in there any manually deleting them, or from the ExpressScribe window, highlight the files you're done with and use CTRL Delete.
2) If your Windows System Restore is enabled, even if the settings are very low, it will tend to create restore files that are extremely large, several GB. If you're not downloading lots of programs or similarly doing busy work that might require a system restore, then create a restore point, and reset System Restore, which will wipe out all previous restore points and their files. Be sure that's what you want to do, but often it's no problem.
3) Similarly, with Norton Internet Security and SystemWorks and especially if you have big files, such as some of the Express Scribe wav files, Norton has a hidden recovery file on the HDD called NProtect. If you right click on your Recycle Bin and click "Empty Norton Protected Files" you will have a choice of purging all protected files, just yours, or canceling. If you're not sure, you have to show the NProtect folder, see what's there, and manually delete the ones you're not concerned about recovering, which may include older ExpressScribe wav files.
It's possible other security companies than Symantec/Norton have similar features.