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Hello-
I have installed the Live 5 demo on my machine:
Powerbook G4 12" 1GHZ, 768MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, M-Audio Firewire Audiophile

I had just reinstalled Tiger and had 18GB free space on my internal hard drive.
I was going to play with my mp3s (all located on an external 200GB USB2.0 drive with 40GB free space - 18GB of mp3s). I read in the Future Publications "Digital DJ" magazine that I could control-click onto the MP3 folder to have it autowarp all the files in the folder. I started this on Monday (12/12/2005) and this morning it was only on "p", but I got a "disc full" message on my internal drive. I tried to quit the demo, but it hung, so I force quit it. It showed 200MB free space.
I ran Cocktail, and a separate CACHE cleaner, disc utility, but all I am showing free space is 1GB, where it should be 18GB.
How does the autowarping feature work so I can find the cache that Live made that ate my drive??

hehe, *now* you ask how autowarping works?
Just kidding though, check the preferences window in Live, it should show you where you've put 17 gigabytes of audio these last couple of days

So, you're aluding to that autowarp makes an audio file?

No, but Live doesn't directly work on mp3s but decodes them into a cache folder determined by the "record audio folder" into Live preferences.
I was not aware that even when autowarping from a folder it would decode all the tracks, but it seems it is what happened to you. If not, tell us.

Best,
amo

Amo-
That's exactly it. I hit "Cleanup" button there and all my space has returned.
And I was able to turn on a button to limit the Cache, which I set at 5GB.

Thank you all for the help.
-Wes