How can I get around making temporary files?

Question

I'm trying to free-up some hard drive space by burning a disc. The thing is, I only have 60MB of space left and I need 700MB to have room for the temporary files to burn a 700MB disc. Is there any way to not make temporary files to burn a disc?

Answer 1

No there is no way. The system has to place all of the files in a location that it can quickly access to stream to the CD. If it has to jump around finding the data it may miss a beat. It may even need consecutive space. I am not sure about that. Go to the disk cleanup and clean as much as possible. You may then have to defragment the disk.

Answer 2

Are you duplicating a CD or creating a CD from local files? If you are duplicating a CD, you either need two CD drives (with one being a write of course) and you should have an option in the software to not use a temporary file. If you are burning from local files, I'm surprised that it tries to write temporary files before burning as local files generally don't have the buffering problem you would find for networked files. You should be able to find an option that allows you to not use temporary files for burning local files to CD too. You might want to open the help dialog for your burning application and try searching on temporary files.

Answer 3

If you are that close on disk space, it is time to do some major delete / cleanup or get a larger hard drive.

Answer 4

If you install and use Imgburn (build mode) you can burn a CD or DVD "on the fly" without temp files. Its small and free.

Answer 5

To try and save some disk space, go to my computer > right click on "C" > properties > disk cleanup. Then defrag.

Good luck.

Answer 6

-Delete any unwanted files
-Run disc clean up

or..
Get a flash drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive
and save files onto it