SU podium disc space issue

[erzitmeerinjetuin]

Hi all,

I’m having huge storage problems as of the moment I started using SU Podium as a render. It creates “geometry.dat”- files of over 500MB each!!
In the history of this forum, I found the topic below, from 3 years ago. However, the problem still exists as I’m running the program on a Windows pc.

Anyone any suggestions whether I can delete those dat-files? And also, what can I do to prevent the creating of those files?

Thanks!

Continuing the discussion from Sketchup plugins heavy on disc space:

@kybe

Hello, I’m looking to get some understanding on the disc space used by sketchup/plugins in the back ground and whether the files being generated in the folder below are temporary files that can be deleted. (as it is rapidly using up space on my primary SSD)

the folder = c:\programdata\sketchup\sketchup2020\sketchup\plugins
folder size = 135GB
content = texture jpgs & geometry.dat
new content (around 1-5GB) is added to the folder each time I use Sketchup & is related to materials I’ve used in my models. I use Podium so this is most likely the plugin generating them.

Is this a Sketchup quirk or only related to Podium?
Is the content in this folder temporary & can it be removed?
Should these be automatically cleaned or is it normal to need to manually clear out this folder every so often?

[Elmtec-Adam]

That’s the actual data for the model that is needed to render.
A typical interior model full of entourage will easily hit 500mb.

If you’ve done your renders, you can delete those folders.

It will make them again next time you render that scene.

SU Podium V2.6 - How to change Podium’s default render settings (suplugins.com)