Playblast using too much storage space

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,
this has been really bugging me lately. I've discovered that when I playblast a scene, which is quite frequently, my hard drive space gets eaten up significantly. I have enabled remove temporary files, and also  manually remove the files that are written to disk, yet still my storage gets eaten up.

Today I took my computer into Apple and had my disk reformatted (which of course made me reinstall Maya and all other apps). After playblasting ~100 frames, three GB of storage was gone! Not normal!

Does anyone have an idea of where these files are (not in /var directory, already looked)? This is killing me, I'll hopefully be contacting Autodesk tomorrow via phone.

Best,
Colby

[n8skow]

It's not clear that Maya is what's eating up all that space without more info...

What is the size of these folders you are rendering to (before emptying?)

What resolution are you rendering? How many frames?