What is it and what does Poser use it for?

At any rate, it's about 12 gigs on my 60 Gig SSD C: drive and is a major space hog. What happens if I delete it?

On a related note:

I have just purchased a second SSD for my Poser machine and I am of several minds as to how to use it. It's 128 Gigs. My total runtimes are 110 gigs, and (between my slowed buying and a planned purge of things that are poor quality/outdated) not likely to become significantly larger any time soon. Would I do better to put the runtimes on the SSD from a performance standpoint, or put the Poser Temp File there along with the Windows paging file?

I'm running Windows XP 64 and Poser Pro 2012.

All opinions appreciated.

I'm on Win7-64bit / Poser2012SR3.1. I'm on a 256Gb SSD which holds my windows/program files, my contents are on a normal HDD since they're pretty huge. Having them on an SSD does not really give an additional speed gain.

I do have all my temps on RAM-drive though. This includes the windows TEMP and TMP variables, and includes the programs with specific temp settings like Poser and Photoshop. At startup, my RAM-disk starts clean. So YES, you can delete them all.

The Temp file folder, as can be set in Poser (General prefs Misc tab) contains various subfolders like FFRenderCache, TextureCache and UndoCache. The Undo cache relates to the max undo levels in general prefs Document tab, the other two refer to the Render cache and Texture Cache as set in the generals prefs Render tabs.  

Vue as well as the Poser Queue Manager use the TEMP variable to locate their temp folders.

In general, SSD's are slow writers, fast readers and do have a max of say 10.000 writes per sector. As a consequence, they're best of stable file collections, and not suit for temps, chaches of page files. I've got my pagefile on normal HDD (no, not on RAM drive :) ). Pagefiles should be 150-200% of your RAM amount.

hope this helps a bit.

12 gigs? ouch... I'm on a Mac, so things might be a little different but the only poser related .tmp files I'm finding are in library/application support/poser/render cache. What I'm finding in there are the cached renders, the number of which files are determined by the settings of your preferences/render/cache/max cached renders. I have my prefs set to 10 max renders and max undo at 25.

You have me wondering now if there is some gigantic poser temporary file lurking somewhere on my computer. if you're refering to the cached renders you can trash those files and change your settings in poser preferences to a lower number.

This is more or less what I suspected, but nice to hear it from someone who knows. Thanks guys!

If you want to move it to another drive, you can move the subdirectory containing it to another drive and create a hard symbolic link from it to the original location. Here's how to do create one in Windows with the free Link Shell extension....

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

You can actually specify where it is using edit -> General Preference -> Misc -> Temp file location.