Disappearing disk space with Quicktime

[MrAdam]

Hello,

I've been working with videos in Quicktime and noticed that my free disk space seems to be disappearing afterwards. Just now I converted a mov file to an avi file. The resulting file was too big so I deleted it. Now, however, I have 3GB less disk space than I did before the conversion. It's not the first time that I've noticed this, and I'm beginning to run fairly low on spare disk space, while not actually doing much that I would expect to take up that much.

Does Quicktime have a cache or something that I'm missing? Obviously I've removed the unwanted converted file from my MBP, but something is still taking up that space and I can't figure out what it is.

Thanks in advance,

Adam

 

[MrAdam]

Anyone? Help would be much appreciated.

 

[mcavjame]

Did you empty the trash after deleting the file? If not, that space is still occupied until the file is permanently gone.

 

[MrAdam]

Yes, the file is deleted and the trash emptied. Some of my disk space has slowly started to reappear (I had about 21GB, then 17GB when I converted the file. After deleting the file I had 18GB, now it's crept up to 20GB, with only a small amount of that being due to removing other files). It seems quite erratic.

 

[Str8edgepunker]

It does have a cache for downloaded movie files from the internet. I'm not in front of my mac but f you open up the preference pane in system preferences, there should be an option to empty it.