im getting a disk space error when trying to remder a 10 sec animation. granted it is a boat load of polygons, BUT i have 30 gig of free space on the drive im saving it to. and after it finishes im planning on putting it on a cd, so i can get back the 30 of free space. is there anyway around this??

Ya but how big is your drive? the whole drive? There is a what one more bug on xp on huge drives. you have to patch it as usuall to get it to be able to write to the whole drive. 200 gig sized drives. It's probibly not that drive that the problem is on anyway it's the Vue drive or C drive. Make the trash can global and set it to 1% Um get windows explorer up and running find the trash can right click properties and set it down to 1% from it's present 10% Just think 3 gigs wasted right there, you say 30 gigs but there is only 27 minus the garbage can. Check it to. Maybe empty it.

the c/ drive which i am "writing" the animation to is total 51.8 gig with 25.0 gig free space. i did adjust the recycle bin (thanks), but still error message pops up saying "error writing file......... please check available disk space and try again" when i hit render animation, even in preview quality? any clues??

Ya but you did not answer my question. How is that possible? I need to know the physical drive sizes. Is it one big drive divided up into smaller drives? Is it two or more huge drives? I tell ya been there done that. A 200 gig drive on xp would not work properly till I patched it so I could write on the entire drive. Now it was broken up into 40 gig partitions but even then I had to patch it before I could do that. Big one partition drives are a big pain cause it's still a 32 bit operating system. Now if you got more than one drive you can set a page file on each drive no bigger than 4 gigs. It might be that page file has grown to 4 gigs. You can check it's present size with Vue running with the task manager. Next I would try where ever you're writing the file. Make sure the folder or drive is not set to read only and make sure you try a new file name just in case there is a goofed file sitting there from a previous attempt. What operating system? Now your drive seems to be dying at 25 gig about so that tells me your not running xp. Is it Fat32 or NTFS?

it is xp, its fat32. what i tried was plugging in an external harddrive of 80 gig, w/ 6 gig free space , into my usb2.0. and now its working just fine,im on frame 52 out of 151!! rendered right up. i do think your correct about having the partion reaching the limit and then going , "ah no i dont think so, kappoot!" because although the drive is big thats where the operating system is functioning. so repartioning the drive seems the way to go for future c:/ drive renders. thanks for all of your help! i appeciate it.

Your problem is fat 32. You'd need to convert the drive to NTFS but you need Partition Magic or you'll loose you data. Now others might work but I know Micronot Hmmmm... Here: http://www.soundbytes.org/davetips.php?thisdate=2003-07-03 Fat 32 the optimum maximum partition size it about 8 gigs each. The size you pick to keep from wasting too much space. Now NTFS you can go bigger cause it's a better system. Defrag on fat 32 hours and hours, NTFS Minutes. It's the system for XP, Y2K

Oh remember if you do do that when you reboot it will take a few mins to put things in order after that. Very Very important that you do not interrupt that most vital step or Poof data gone !!!!!