Problem with Premier Pro and mystery filling up of harddrive

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I have very little space on the C partition of my laptop hard-drive (and don't want to re-partition). I have done disk-clean-up, deleted lots of emails, moved stuff to my external HDD but the space gained gets filled when I attempt to use Adobe Premier Pro or After Effects (which I installed yesterday and have never used before – don’t know how to use).
The C partition on my laptop harddrive was at just under 2GB before I opened Premiere Pro but even though the rended to MP4 file I was trying to work with is on my 'external' drive and any files I create in PP I save also on the 'external' drive
my C petition then, after about 15 mins or less, has only 706MB space left even though I have not saved anything to it as I have not done anything other than import a file from my external drive and try to figure out how to work PP.

It seems strange that the space left should go from just under 2GB to 706MB when all I did was attempt to use PP and open Internet Explorer (which made PP crash btw). It seems that I cannot use both at the same time.

I can’t even use PP tutorials online whilst having PP is open as doing both at same time seems to crash one or both programs.

The video I am trying to edit in PP is 1.5GB so it it too big to put on my laptop C partition.

I have very little tech knowledge, but the terms I use might make it appear I have more knowledge than I do – so please aware I need idiot proof advice!

Please try to answer:

A - I do not know what is filling the C partition of my laptop hard-drive (I look to see if any temp files have been created but the temp folder is empty – any clues?

B - How do I find out

C - How do I delete whatever it is and still be able to use PP?

D - How do I install PP onto my external HDD? It says it is not suitable or something can’t is there something I should install to make it suitable?

E – Is space needed for operating? Is this why PP is so, so slow?

Please answer using the ABCDE so it is clear to which question your answer/s is to.

Edit: PS - my OS is Vista

Thank you.

I don't think this will help but it does sound like you are trying to do too much with too little disk space.
My guess is that if you are attempting to edit a 1.5 GB file that a temp file created - possibly in your profiles AppData folder which is hidden in Vista. Or PP is trying to load the whole file into memory and Vista is just dumping this out to swap file because it is too big to get into memory.
In either case you are running out of working disk space.
It is also likely your disk is badly in need of defragmenting and is a mess with bits of files all over the place.

Sounds like you need a bigger disk or major clear out. Time for an upgrade? Or work with smaller files. Is there any way you can chop the video file into smaller pieces to work with?

The clash between IE and PP also sounds like you are running out of resources - likely insufficient disk space.

Thaks Tallyman. I guess the problem is as, you say, that I am trying to do too much with too little space to work with. I deleted a few things in I defragged manually. I have it set for once a week but did in manually this time as well. the AppData as you said but not sure what a lot of it was so left lots of things. I have about 3 gigs now.

premiere will convert any video you import to a format it can use. So you have two videos, the original and the one premiere is using for editing.
When you create a new project you select where you want the "temp"* files to be, take a look there.

* I said "temp" because AFAIR premiere doesn't get rid of them.