Hi, so first off I am new here, I hope I am posting this in the right place.
So I am techy in the sense of photography, cinematography, and final cut studio, things like that. But I'm a little lost when It comes to understanding memory and disk space.
I do a lot of final cut express editing and uploading photos from my cannon SLR which take up about 2.5 to 4.0 MB per photo.
I often run into the problem when editing that I don't have enough disk space on my scratch disk. I have an external hard drive that i put old/unused files on. But it barely makes a dent in the space my files take up.
So I was wondering exactly what I am running out of (virtual or real) and what I am making room for when deleting old files and things like that to make space.
Should I look into buying more RAM for my computer? Or is this not related to RAM? Does anyone have any solutions or workarounds for this?
Here are some stats on the computer, im not sure what is relevant or not.
I got my macbook pro in 2008, (15inch)
System profiler> memory>
Memory Slots:
ECC: Disabled
BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0xCE00000000000000
Part Number: 0x4D342037305432393533455A332D43453620
Serial Number: 0x78327791
BANK 1/DIMM1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0xCE00000000000000
Part Number: 0x4D342037305432393533455A332D43453620
Serial Number: 0x78327470
can anyone help? thanks in advance!
So I am techy in the sense of photography, cinematography, and final cut studio, things like that. But I'm a little lost when It comes to understanding memory and disk space.
I do a lot of final cut express editing and uploading photos from my cannon SLR which take up about 2.5 to 4.0 MB per photo.
I often run into the problem when editing that I don't have enough disk space on my scratch disk. I have an external hard drive that i put old/unused files on. But it barely makes a dent in the space my files take up.
So I was wondering exactly what I am running out of (virtual or real) and what I am making room for when deleting old files and things like that to make space.
Should I look into buying more RAM for my computer? Or is this not related to RAM? Does anyone have any solutions or workarounds for this?
Here are some stats on the computer, im not sure what is relevant or not.
I got my macbook pro in 2008, (15inch)
System profiler> memory>
Memory Slots:
ECC: Disabled
BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0xCE00000000000000
Part Number: 0x4D342037305432393533455A332D43453620
Serial Number: 0x78327791
BANK 1/DIMM1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0xCE00000000000000
Part Number: 0x4D342037305432393533455A332D43453620
Serial Number: 0x78327470
can anyone help? thanks in advance!