I have set my project to render to a USB drive with 122 TB of free space, and my path shows in KDE’s output box, but it tells me I only have 11 GB available and will not start the render. What am i doing wrong. Thanks.
Is that a legit capacity? You can get drives of that size, but apparently we’re talking $50k or so.
How are you measuring free space?
Are you measuring drive or partition free space?
What format is the partition?
Do you have a recycle-bin or wastebasket configured for that partition?
Output of inxi -zv8 would help us troubleshoot.
I right click the drive name in Explorer on Windows 11, scroll to and click “properties”, and read the usage, free space, and capacity. I am measuring the device’s properties. You seem skeptical of the facts I have provided. The drive is formatted as NTFS and functions normally while running other applications. Windows 11 sees it and reports 122 TB of total capacity. I have run Disk Drill on the device which confirms its legitimacy. I really shouldn’t need anything near 122 TB of space for this little project in any event, but I have no other device on my system with enough free space to which I can direct the rendering of my video. I have a Windows 11 recycle bin, but it is set up via whatever default means Windows deploys without any specific reference to this drive. I can open the recycle bin by clicking its icon, and I can browse its contents which always reflect files I recognize as having “deleted” from my system, and I can click to empty the bin at my discretion.
I am a 75-year-old guy, and I have been “putering” since the days when the Apple IIC with its cassette-based storage was the hot new thing. My first attempt at computerized video utilized Studio Director 200 on some early version of Windows which analogically read and assembled my taped footage and output that footage to cassette tape (accurate to within a frame or two). I used to record my wife’s student musicals by employing three video recorders that I synced up using Sonic Foundry’s Vegas Video (ah, to be young again!).
I appreciate your reply, but I find your skepticism a bit distasteful. I regret mentioning my drive’s capacity. If that information makes you uncomfortable, just consider its capacity to be some other nominal value and accept my contention that its free capacity is sufficient to accommodate the rendering of a one-hour KDE project. I like using the application, I have completed other projects using it successfully. I seek only an answer as to why KDE returned this error code on this project, and I have neither reason nor motivation to fabricate the facts describing my system’s capacity.
Sincerely,
John Calloway
My apologies John, I had no intention to suggest that you had fabricated anything.
I asked the question because, unfortunately, unscrupulous sellers produce devices that use trickery to report a false capacity to the operating system. Unfortunately, when one tries to use such a device, the results are disappointing.
122 TB is a capacity which is only really available for data center-grade hardware, so that did awake my suspicions.
I’m sorry I don’t use Windows anymore, so I’m not best placed to give concrete advice on how to figure out what’s going on here.
OK, 'nuf said, thanks. I often wish I didn’t use Windows anymore, myself. I have an old Asus 17" G74 laptop that I haven’t used in years. It’s set up to dual boot Windows (some old version) and Ubuntu, but its BIOS password I cannot remember, so it is effectively bricked. No one can help me get around that issue, not even Asus. . . bummer. This machine doesn’t have sufficient capacity to install Linux as a dual boot, so I am about to install a second hard drive.
Thanks again for your replies.
John
You did not provide any facts; but instead statements. As I’m sure you can appreciate there are so many combinations of hardware, software, drivers, etc the first logical place to start troubleshooting is with a solid understanding of what you’re working with. In your issue for example, all of those layers I just mentioned are involved and more. The questions I asked were to establish at least some of that foundation on which to work from.
So far you have provided the following:
Windows 11
122TB drive total capacity
Drive formatted as NTFS
You are obtaining the drive capacity from Windows Explorer disk properties
You’ll notice my reply above asked for the output of inxi -zv8. This is a linux command that outputs comprehensive hardware and environment information which is very useful for troubleshooting. Unfortunately Windows 11 doesn’t have an easy substitute. There are commands you can run but they’re significantly longer and more difficult to understand that inxi -zv8.
So since I’m not running Windows I won’t ask you to run them as I can’t verify they’re correct first. Perhaps someone else here can help with that.