I thought I would warn people that if you save a file in C4 (and C3 I think) to a disk without sufficient space, you will not get an error message but the file will be corrupt (truncated). This has happened to me a few times even with a few hundred mb more disk space than absolutely required. Any one else notice this on Windows XP Home?

I've just tested this with C4Pro on XP Pro and it is as you say, the file appeared to save OK but was truncated. But are you saying that this has happened even when there is plenty of space? (Mind you, apparent disk space and actual disk space can vary depending on how fragmented your disk is.) All the same, any file error of this sort is serious.

sailor_ed: are you saving to a CD/Zip disc, or your computers hard-drive 'disc'?

Sorry to have been vague. This happened when I was saving to HD. It also happened when I THOUGHT I had the size of the file(300MB) plus 200MB of space left but I could easily have been wrong. (I wouldn't call this "plenty of space") One of the problems is that if you run C4 in non windowed mode you will never see Windows warning that drive space is getting low. I run on a notebook and HD space is always tight! :-) Thanks for the confirmation. At least its not my hardware.

Yes, i had the same error some months ago on mac! It's not your hardware for sure:-) -TOXE

 

Ah yes, it's the "low disk space - click here to do disk clean-up message"? You can get that while downloading files and whatnot, and end up with truncated file downloads too.

Just a silly hardware/disk FYI, regardless of platform, when hard disks approach 80% capacity any large file saves become unpredictable. Some programs handle it elegently and let you know the options, others hide a failure and let you discover it. :)