Kontakt 5 creating huge amount of 'system files'

CharlieW
CharlieW Member Posts: 4 Newcomer
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I've been converting a load of old .gig instruments to .nki in K5 and saving to an external drive. I've noticed my Mac now has 600GB of 'system files' that is growing the more I convert. I haven't been able to figure out where these files are located and how to get rid of them to recover storage. Any thoughts would be gratefully received.

Thank you.

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  • DPFranz
    DPFranz Member Posts: 13 Member
    edited March 31

    I had something like this happen, and it may not be directly related, but I had mistakenly set up Google Drive to back up my Windows 11 Documents folder. But Microsoft One Drive was also backing that folder up. Between the two programs, they were each trying to back each other up, creating gigabytes of tiny garbage files and slowing my system to a crawl.

    Perhaps you have something analogous going on with your Kontact directory? Two programs trying to manage that folder?

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,530 mod

    @Jeremy_NI , I can not remember the answer to this one , do you know why ?

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Administrator, Customer Care Posts: 14,275 admin

    Hey there, I reached out to a Kontakt team, here is their answer:

    I assume that the Giga Libraries have been converted via Batch resave/import in Kontakt 5.
    Might be that there are temp files used for caching from the batch process are left here:
    Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Native Instruments > Kontakt 5


    or here:
    Macintosh HD > Users > Your User Name > Library > Application Support > Native Instruments > Kontakt 5

    It's just a guess, we didn't reproduce this yet.

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