PI won't create swapfiles, says there's no space available

[Nocturnal]

Hi,

I'm attempting to do some processing with 1.4 on my laptop. There's about 90GB free on the C: drive. When I try to crop my image I get an error dialog stating there's no free space on my hard drive. I've verified that the chosen directory (%TEMP%) is correct and writable. I created a new directory (c:\temp\pixinsight_swap) and tried using that instead. Same result.

Any idea what's going on?

[Nocturnal]

I re-installed PI and now it works. Must have been a permission problem. Weird.

[David Serrano]

I re-installed PI and now it works. Must have been a permission problem. Weird.

Yes, it is. I would suggest to save a copy of the configuration file before reinstalling in order to compare the old and new ones. I guess Juan will be glad to know about these "fixed after reinstall" issues.

[Philippe B.]

I got the same message error and I also reinstalled then it worked. I aslo make a full reset configuration.

[Borja]

I an getting this problem if I change de temp directory to another location.
(I am administrator of the machine)

¿?

Regards.

PS.- I have a Vista 64 system

[David Serrano]

Hmm, I just remembered a recent conversation about this. The suggested solution was to use the root of any disk as the swap directory. I don't know if the problem is present or fixed in 1.4.1 but I'd try it just in case.

[Juan Conejero]

Indeed, this is a bug in 1.4 (Windows version only). The application cannot retrieve the available space on Windows when the swap files directory is a sub-directory (non-root) of a removable device.

The work around is just to change the swap directory to a root directory on the removable disk, or much better, to a directory on an internal hard disk (non-removable):

- Edit > Global Preferences

- Select Directories and Network on the left panel.

- Remove the current directory from the Swap storage directories list.

- Add a new directory that simply points to the removable device, without any directory specification beyond the root. For example, F: or F:\, but not F:\my_temp_dir\pixinsight.

This will be fixed on 1.4.5.

[Nocturnal]

Hi Juan,

%TEMP% did not point at a removable device in my case. Re-install fixed it rather than changing the settings. Maybe whatever I experienced is fixed by the same update but my symptoms did not match your description I think.