Recently, while using Roxio Toast 6 on my 17" Powerbook and/or my 17" iMac to burn DVD's of my latest El Gato Seinfeld booty, I discovered that the available free space on my hard drive was not being freed up after removal of the original source content from the hard drive. After some digging around, I noticed something that really amounts to two hints in one.
HINT 1: Apparently, during the encoding process that converts the source material into acceptable burn (DVD, VCD, whatever...) format, Toast 6 creates a "Roxio Converted Items" directory within the "Documents" directory of the current user's home directory tree (i.e., /Users -> you_dude -> Documents -> Roxio Converted Items) and then uses this directory to store copies of the encoded, to-be-burned content while it merrily goes about it's job of burning a disc.
What's unfortunate about this is that Roxio *does not* remove the copies of the content once the disc is done being burned, leaving you with your original copy of the source material *and* copies of the audio of the encoded, to-be-burned material, chewing up hard drive space in the process.
I have found no ill effect in removing the encoded, to-be-burned content once I was done with my burn session.
HINT 2: The left-over / remaining audio files from the encoded, to-be-burned material mentioned above are in .AIFF format, so it's a great way to get audio-only files from your original source material.
That's it. Tell me that's not a deal ... save hard drive space and rip audio ... all in one fell swoop. Enjoy!
HINT 1: Apparently, during the encoding process that converts the source material into acceptable burn (DVD, VCD, whatever...) format, Toast 6 creates a "Roxio Converted Items" directory within the "Documents" directory of the current user's home directory tree (i.e., /Users -> you_dude -> Documents -> Roxio Converted Items) and then uses this directory to store copies of the encoded, to-be-burned content while it merrily goes about it's job of burning a disc.
What's unfortunate about this is that Roxio *does not* remove the copies of the content once the disc is done being burned, leaving you with your original copy of the source material *and* copies of the audio of the encoded, to-be-burned material, chewing up hard drive space in the process.
I have found no ill effect in removing the encoded, to-be-burned content once I was done with my burn session.
HINT 2: The left-over / remaining audio files from the encoded, to-be-burned material mentioned above are in .AIFF format, so it's a great way to get audio-only files from your original source material.
That's it. Tell me that's not a deal ... save hard drive space and rip audio ... all in one fell swoop. Enjoy!
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