[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by uhuhnottelling

thank you both to roy and walt!

you've given me some great info.

the freezing issue: i left 3 overnight. 1 finally merged dupes, the other two just stayed frozen all night.

but my most immediate problem: i can't find where the temp files are kept in windows 7. as my folder was scanning it completely filled my harddrive. i have less than 2 MB, yes MB free :O i had about 70 gigs free but the folder scanning just started filling the harddrive. so weird. it's happening on another computer that is running windows 8. i found those temp files and it instantly freed up 80 gigs. the merging is the least of my problems at present :S

First of are you using 5.09.02 as an update was released from the original 5.09 ?
You can check this from Help/about Hoster.

Have a look in the Quarantine folder, to find it open Hoster, go to Tools/Hoster Data Folder, you should see a folder named Quarantine, Is this full ?
If your files are on an external drive you may find a Quarantine folder there. open the external drive and look for MTU/Hoster/Quarantine or it might be just Hoster/Quarantine, see if that has any files in it.
If the files in these folders are kma types then deleting them will mean losing them altogether, if they are kmh types then it is only the kmh headers which is only a small file anyway.

If you were looking for it using an earlier version like 5.08 the quarantine folder would be in C\MTU\Hoster folder.

As your drive was full that may account for the merge freezing.