Both Studio and MultiTerm 2017 use up 100% of disk space when opening and after a few hours of use.

Question

While I still have loads of diskspace free. I am on Windows 10 computer. 
 My termbase is very large. Whether I open a small or large file in Studio, after a while the disk space used is 100%. 
 First I thought it was Chrome or Firefox, but it's actually Studio and/or MultiTerm.

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Hello Akke Wagenaar , 
 
The first thing I would look at is to be sure you are on the latest versions of both Studio & MultiTerm 2017. 
Simply open Studio/MultiTerm - go to the HELP tab and check for updates. 
 
If you are on the latest versions, the next question would be whether you have the 'Web lookup' app installed? 
 
Please take a look at this community posting- as this seems to reflect the issues you are describing. 
 community.sdl.com/.../13344 
 
Please let me know if this helps resolve the issue.

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Hello Paola 
 Although we cannot offer direct support for MAC users - An installation of Studio via Parallels works without issue for the vast majority of users. 
 However I notice you mentioned that Studio was taking up over 50%! of the memory (300MB), which suggests that you have not assigned enough RAM to the Parallels installation. 
 This indeed would explain the sluggish performance and freezes you are experiencing and is easily rectified. 
 As an absolute minimum- we would recommend at least 4GB RAM- 
 
 You can assign more RAM to Parallels very quickly and easily- 
 I am quite positive that once you have assigned enough RAM, you will see a much faster and smoother performance. 
 Also your TM is starting to nudge towards the larger than average size for a local TM (as opposed to server based). 
 Naturally the larger the TM- the longer the search is going to take, so the following options will also speed up the search 
 1) Try 'reindexing' the TM 
 
 2) Remove any data that is outdated or that you no longer need or use (TM Maintenance)- 
 
 https://www.sdltrados.com/video/translators-talk-trados-translation-memory-maintenance/114529/ 
 
 Please let me know how you get on.

Akke Wagenaar · Answer

Hello Steven Whale, 
I have done a test, first in the morning only working in Studio, nothing else. Disk use stayed very low for hours. Then I opened Multiterm and a termbase, and disk use stayed low. Then a few hours later, I opened Firefox with only 1 tab open, and disk use stayed low. After some hours, I opened some more tabs. Disk use went up a bit, but slowly, at the end of the day, it had become 100%. So Firefox is the culprit (and/or Linguee) and I guess the only solution is to open only a few tabs until Firefox (and Chrome!) realize that they are causing users problems.

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Both Studio and MultiTerm 2017 use up 100% of disk space when opening and after a few hours of use.