Cheat Engine

Rectangle

Anybody know where CE stores it's temporary scan data/files?
After a long scan (starting with float->Unknown Initial Value, then Unchanged Value), I noticed about 20+ gb of HDD space was eaten up.
And every time I do another scan, I lose more HDD space.
Seeing as how I'm only using about 50% of memory during the scan, I doubt it is Windows writing to the virtual memory space.
And after clearing/examining C:\Windows\Temp, CE doesn't seem to write anything there.
I've also looked in Common Files and AppData, and can't find anything of significant size... And rebooting does nothing.
So what's going on?

I should also note that this was NOT a pointer scan. It was just a standard memory scan.
And running CC Cleaner had no effect on the amount of disk space I'm losing during these scans.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

Check the settings. The default should be the windows temp, but you can change it. I store it in a specific folder that I can easily delete.

Rectangle · Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject:

Ok, so I found it. But it wasn't C:\Windows\Temp...
Instead, it saves to the environment variable %TEMP%.
For me, this evaluated to C:\Users\<myusername>\AppData\Local\Temp\Cheat Engine.
So I guess I didn't do enough digging in AppData, it would seem.

Thanks!

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:48 pm Post subject:

If you close cheat engine normally it will automatically delete those files

Rectangle · Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 6:56 pm Post subject:

ce will delete scanfiles older than 7 days (on successful closing)

you can have multiple CE's open at the same time, and some you could have open multiple days (for whatever reason)