TempIndex Question

[lukeye]

Can you explain what files are left in the TempIndex folder in ArchiveCreator?
Can these be safely removed after burning a set of discs?
Is there any benefit in leaving these files on the HD?
I would guess that while these files are genreally pretty small, they can add up.

I want to be sure I am not going to end up cloggin my HD with info that can be safely trashed, but I don't want to trash information that is useful to the program (or future revisions of the program) if it is better to save that info.

Thanks, Erik.

[MichaelT]

Erik,

Good question.

The TempIndex folder has the the entire index that is created after processing. It is left behind so that you can re-enter AC and burn another set of discs from the last Archive Set without having to re-process. Also you can process the files and then burn at another time. So this is a feature.

When you process again or process the next Archive Set the TempIndex folder is deleted and the new one written, so this will not be an acculmating thing. Just 1 folder that ranges in size from 5-200Mb depending on your file selection list and image options (it could be bigger or smaller as well).

Some people will want to copy this folder manually onto a another space on the HD to sort of make a Master Index of all the Cds. We plan to add this feature into AC but for now you can copy this folder to another place and maintain a DB of sorts to your Cds.

I hope that this answers your question.

Thanks..

[lukeye]

Michael,
Thanks for the answer. That is useful information. I now have one more question. If I were to copy this folder to a new location on my HD after each burn, should I rename the folder with a new unique name?
Does AC use the folder names: "TSource_F" and "TSource_V" every time it creates a new temp folder by simply overwriting the existing temp folder?

Thanks again,
Erik.

[MichaelT]

You should make a Master folder...let's say "c:\Archives".

Copy the entire TempIndex folder into there and rename the TempIndex Folder to "2002NOV" or whatever.

So after a while you will have

"c:\Archives\2002NOV"
"c:\Archives\2002DEC"
"c:\Archives\2003JAN"

Do not rename any of the folder inside of the Temp Index as this will break the index.

AC reuses the Source_F names, but this is down few folders.

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