Weird things with storage in 2026

Flame Hardware Questions
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Doing 2026 Trial - noticing some strange behavior and reporting. Rendering some LONG shots in Batch - up to 7000 frames. In 2025, I never had issues, but in 2026, it says “Insufficient space on the storage”. But if I break it up into 1000 frames renders (HD), no problem (one at a time.). Oddly, I can render 7000 frames in an HD timeline without issue.

On Mac w 13.6, using a 4TB NVM for Flame Stone. Here’s where it gets really wonky.

Finder level sees the NVM drive as 3.86 TB, with 900 GB available - and yet somehow the Managed Folder reports 5.04 TB.

Flame’s storage calc shows only 39GB available.

Any idea what’s going on here?

3-Finder-NVM_Disk
3-Finder-NVM_Disk1028×670 106 KB

5-Flame_Storage_Calc
5-Flame_Storage_Calc574×398 37.4 KB

4-Finder-Managed Folder
4-Finder-Managed Folder784×464 47.4 KB

2-Finder-STONE
2-Finder-STONE664×494 47.3 KB

1-Insufficient Space
1-Insufficient Space988×636 48.7 KB

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Project Dir?
Catalog Dir?
Media Dir?
Setups Dir?

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that’s all on the boot drive, as is standard. the 4TB NVM is only the Autodesk “ManagedFolder”.

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In 2026, you define managed media storage when you make the project in Flame. Is that pointing at your extrenal storage? At some tiny swap partition somewhere else?

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2026 doesn’t use this managed folder by default.
you can choose to work in a number of ways.
the documentation is pretty clear.

try setting up the following directory on your external NVMe:

mkdir -p -m 777 /Volumes/NVM_Stone/flame/projects

Create a new test project and choose this directory as the parent for your new project.

once created you’ll end up with:

/Volumes/NVM_Stone/flame/projects/MY_PROJEKT/
/Volumes/NVM_Stone/flame/projects/MY_PROJEKT/catalog
/Volumes/NVM_Stone/flame/projects/MY_PROJEKT/media
/Volumes/NVM_Stone/flame/projects/MY_PROJEKT/setups

give that a whirl

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Ah, thanks. Yep - media was going to the boot drive var/opt/Autodesk. Guess that will teach me to convert a project without reading the manual first!

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Back To The Future Doc GIF by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

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The online help contains a lot of good secrets :wink:

You might want to either define the default Media Cache location in the sysconfig.cfg file OR create templates for project to ensure your NVME storage is selected when creating new projects.

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