Not enough free space on drive C:\Users\username\appdata\local\temp

[Anonymous]

We've been having this problem for a couple years now, and normally a quick purge of the google earth cache is enough to be able to save....but not lately.

I can delete everything that the PC will allow from that folder, and still have this error.

The most recent time, I had to shut down autocad, restart the machine, and delete locked entities that wouldn't save because of this error.

When I shut down and restarted, the AutoCAD temp file went away.
Restarted AutoCAD, and within two and a half hours...I was getting this error again.

The newly created AutoCAD temp file was 775,xxxKB in two and a half hours.

[Anonymous]

I made it all of four hours today, and same message.
Deleted everything in the directory that it would let me delete.

This is getting pathetic.

[Koesti]

Hi @Anonymous,

from the description I understand that the main drive has not enough space on drive C: and I assume we have 64 bit operating system.

If you have a second device you can change the Temporary Drawing File Location: 

Within your AutoCAD OPTIONS > Support File Search Path, change the Temporary Drawing File Location to different divice. 

Another idea could be to disable creating the temp files for AutoCAD in Option > Open ans Save 

If you are working with huge DWG it can help to change the Incremental save percentage, the setting is at the same page in Options.

The systemvariable is "Isavepercent"

Hope that helps

Kind regards

Brigitte

[Anonymous]

AutoCAD Map 3D 2017.
8.00 GB RAM, Windows 10 64 bit.

Virtual Memory:
Space available: 811232MB

Initial Size: 12228MB

Maximum Size 12228MB

There are no other drives on this machine, only network drives and saving to a network drive is less than ideal.
We already tried changing the file path to a different folder yesterday...with the same results.

I've been dealing with AutoDesk Support on twitter all day, and they asked that I post my screen captures on their forum...so here they are.

Error Message:

Temp File size after two hours:



Support was saying it was likely an issue with Virtual Memory, and asked that I go to the following to check the allocation for AutoCAD:
Go to Task Manager>View>Select Columns>Virtual Memory Size.

I can't find where they are referring to at all.
There is no "Select Columns"

[Anonymous]

Where can I disable creating temp files for AutoCAD?

Here's my "Open and Save" tab.
I see the incremental save percentage, but nothing about disabling the temp file.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> There are no other drives on this machine

All in short, your hardware does not meet your needs/your requirements 😉

If you do have projects that need to use temp-files (you can't disable using temp-files in AutoCAD) and your local hard-disk does not have enough space, then you need to either remove files from that disk to get the place or build in a larger or second drive.

Comparison: if your car runs max 80km/h but you need to go with 130km/h (your larger projects) it's up to you to change to a new car or modify your exiting one 😉

To some of your statements:

>> The newly created AutoCAD temp file was 775,xxxKB in two and a half hours.

I restart AutoCAD every two hours at least (sometimes maybe 3 hours, but not if I have issues then)

From your first post

>> We've been having this problem for a couple years now

From the second post

>> This is getting pathetic.

You are knowing that your hard-disk does not have enough space for years now (means you lost a lot of working time and so a lot if money) ... and you don't change anything? Sorry for my wording, but this is getting pathetic 😉

A simple hard-disk or ssd are just a few bucks, compared to your costs ....

>> We already tried changing the file path to a different folder yesterday

If the folder is on the same drive, why should that help anything?

>> I can't find where they are referring to at all.
>> There is no "Select Columns"

In taskmanager change to tab "Details" and then right-click on one of the column-header ==> select columns ==> there you get the option to add columns to the list of processes.

>> Where can I disable creating temp files for AutoCAD?

You can't, there is no option for disabling temp-files

And from your screenshot in post 5 ... don't disable the creation of the BAK file, it is sometimes the last chance to recover data if your dwg-file is defect.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

The machine in question has a 1TB drive with over 700GB available.

[Anonymous]

Prior to this week it was a minor annoyance.
All I had to do was clear the google earth cache and the error message was resolved...

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> The machine in question has a 1TB drive with over 700GB available.

Well, then ask your admin if you do have restrictions about data volume. It would be unusual to have a limit on your local harddisk, but it's possible.

It's also possible that your user-folder has a limit-per-user set, again, ask your admin.

>> All I had to do was clear the google earth cache and the error message was resolved..

Where was that data stored? Also in your users folder? If so ... look to the above statements 😉

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

He's been closely involved in trying to figure out this issue.
I'm not restricted on this machine at all.

Google Earth is not cached on the same drive folder that is producing the errors...that is part of what has us so puzzled.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Google Earth is not cached on the same drive folder

That sounds strange, removing files on another drive than the one Map3D is needing more space solves the issue?

Also making me curios ... do you now have one drive or more? ... or did you use a network drive for caching GoogleEarth files?

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

There is only one physical drive on the machine, we've talked about adding a second as part of narrowing down the issue at hand.
All other drives are network drives.

The error we're getting is "Not enough free space on drive C:\Users\bsmith\appdata\local\temp.

Until last week, clearing the Google Earth cache would fix the problem.

Google Earth caches to C:\Users\bsmith\appdata\LocalLow\Google]GoogleEarth.


It's looking more and more like the issue is that Bing Map imagery is what is making the AutoCAD temp file grow so quickly and cause this error.
At it's core, the issue we're having is the size of the AutoCAD temp file...

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

well, both folders you have shown are subdirectories of your user-account ... brings me back to a defined maximum contingent restriction for your user-account.

So whatever folder in C:\Users\bsmith grows in size does limit other subfolders, that's what I think has the highest probability.

(especially as you wrote that you have tons of free space on your harddisk)

>> the issue is that Bing Map imagery is what is making the AutoCAD temp file grow so quickly

Possible, but that has to be done out of performance reasons. Not caching raises the internet traffic and slows down every single zoom.

- alfred -

[O_Eckmann]

Hi,

you can try to create a TEMP folder directly to C:\ root (C:\TEMP) and choose this folder for temp file in AutoCAD (command options / Files folder / Directory for Temporary file and Directory for Xref (it's french dialog in screenshot)

You can eventualy create another specific folder for Automatic save.

Olivier 

[Anonymous]

We tried creating a new folder and pointing AutoCad to it last week.
We have C:\AutocadTemp set for everything we could find in the Tools>Options>Files that was previously directed to the folder we're having problems with.

That's where it gets bizarre.

I started today at 5.30 am, had to shut down due to the error at 9.00am.  Had to do it again at 11.00am.
If I go into the newly made C:\AutocadTemp folder, the only things that are going there are the REDO.ac$ and UNDO.ac$.

Nothing we can do will actually make the main .tmp file in autocad change locations.
It's still going to C:\Users\bsmith\AppData\Local\Temp.

[O_Eckmann]

Hi,

perhaps with MAPIOPTIONS  (not MAPOPTIONS) in tab Memory, you can change Temp folder.

Olivier

[Anonymous]

Just checked MapIOptions and it says that the Temp File Location is the C:\AutocadTemp\ folder that we created and set everything to save to...

But the autocad temp file continues to go to a different folder.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

next chance: set your user-environment variables TMP and TEMP to a new different folder (a folder, that is not part of limitations, e.g. C:\TEMP).

And please don't forget: for folders created in C:\ in most cases you have to assign full permissions ... otherwise you might have troubles, e.g. to connect to WMS or WFS services (you might get access errors to that servers if your temp folders (system-temp as well as the temp files used in AutoCAD and Map3D)).

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Changed the mapIsettings and was encouraged.
The first day, the temp file grew to 2,200,000+KB and no error.

Then the next day I got the dreaded error at 1,1000,000KB.

Yesterday our IT guy went through and changed the user-environment variables as you suggested most recently.
Encouraged by the fact that the temp file is actually going to the newly created folder...finally.

I'll update this later, so others that may have this problem in the future will know if this resolved the problems.

Thanks for all the help.

[Anonymous]

And the error is back...

On Friday, everything was great.
By the end of the day the relocated temp file was up to 5GB, and no error in 10+ hours of working on the file.

On Monday, the error came up when the temp file was at 2.2GB...

The inconsistency of when it happens may be the most frustrating part of it all.