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I was wondering why my C drive was completely full, so checked my Attic and realised that it was 150GB in size!  Now my system is not that old...

I checked the Bin settings (which to be fair, I haven't checked in a long time) and the defaults were pretty insane (see attachment).

Why, does anyone know, are they so high?

Also, I was surprised to see that if I opened a bin from another project, a copy(s) were also kept.  No wonder my Attic was so large.  I can't work out why anyone would want to keep copies of bins opened from other projects in their present one.  Sometimes I open up a lot of final Mastered sequences, so these links/bins could be pretty large.

Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up.

Ra-ey

150GB divided by 1000 bins, that's 150 MB per bin I believe.

That's a pretty large average bin size and I think that the default assumes most will be using more bins with smaller sizes thus hitting the 1000 bin limit earlier and with less of an overall size.

As for saving a bin when opened from another project it just looks at everything and saves.  I'd rather it be safe and save than not.

Regardless if your working with such large bins just reduce the max amounts in the bin settings.

I don't think most run into this issue.

Fair enough, I take your point but I do think the saving 'linked' bins is overkill.  Better safe than sorry, I suppose.

I've changed the default on my system.  It would be great if we had more settings to change the behavior of the Attic - i.e. to automatically delete projects that haven't been opened in 3 months etc...

Ra-ey

My reading of your setup is that you can have up to 1000 bins per project and up to 50 copies of each bin. Therefore 20 bins per project will quickly give you 1000 bins in each project in the attic.

As part of my daily backup I automatically save my attic (Windows scheduled Robo Copy file to update changed files only)

On Avid at the end of the project I delete it from the attic on that CPU(after the overnight backup). Then I have the project (and 3 backups of that on different storagea) along with the latest attic backup of all projects.

My autosave is set at 15 minutes on some CPU's and 30 minutes on other CPU's and I limit myself to 5 copies of any bin. My Avid Attic backup (8 years worth of Projects on PC's) is currently about 18GB's

I sincerly doubt Avid will EVER make their software automatically delete anything.  Especially Clip information.

Perhaps YOU should "automatically" delete old attic files after 3 months ; )

FunkyDragon:

I sincerly doubt Avid will EVER make their software automatically delete anything.  Especially Clip information.

Perhaps YOU should "automatically" delete old attic files after 3 months ; )

I'd simply like MORE choice.  Avid already automatically deletes bins (once you've hit your bin limit) so it's not that much of a stretch.

And I do housekeep - alot! ;-)

The screen grab I posted was the default.  I've changed it to 20 bins and 100 max.

We have a Projects Backup system where we copy the whole project every evening to a RAID protected drive.

The Attic is our backup backup.

To be honest, I'd just like the ability to turn of the Avid backing up bins that I opened from other projects.  Like I said, I do this alot and this will quickly increase my Attic size.

Ra-ey