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Are we suppose to manually delete contents of /tmp?
I was under the impression that /tmp will regularly delete "old" files. Seems to me that /tmp will just grow as long as it wants to and won't delete anything. Some people say it's betetr to just leave ...
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Where is the Temp folder in OS X?
I am working on a project that stores output files in the Temp folder. In Windows I can search the Temp folder but I don't know the location of Temp folder in OS X.
Can you please guide me to the ...
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How to set a folder as “temporary” so that its contents are deleted after shutdown?
I need to mark some folders on my C: and D: drives as temporary, so that all contents saved in them get deleted after shutdown.
How can I do that?
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How to remove temporary files after reboot on Windows?
Ubuntu deletes temporary files by default after reboot, but Windows doesn't. How to make Windows to do the same?
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Windows cache and temp on RAM disk
I have 16 GB of memory and have just started to experiment with having a 1 GB RAMdisk. Currently, I only have the browser cache there, but I am thinking of moving the Windows7 cache and temp ...
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Can I delete this Kaspersky Temp File safely?
Kaspersky files are taking a lot of space and so I went online and found out how to delete Kaspersky temp files. However I couldn't find any files ending in .tmp (yes, I have show hidden folders on) ...
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Can content be recovered from Chrome's cache? [closed]
I've been working on a draft post in Blogger for the last few weeks. I was just finishing it, and decided to do a spell check. Halfway through the spell check (in Chrome) I used CTRL+Z to undo a ...
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Why chrome use a temporary file and then rename it when downloading files? [closed]
I'm now impelmenting a simple download utility. I don't know why chrome need a temporary file when downloading from the Internet and then rename it, instead of downloading the file directly with its ...
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Temp folder in ramdisk
I have a computer with windows 8 x64 and 16GB RAM.
I bought a SSD, but still want to get the last bit of performance out of my computer ;)
Does it make sense to put my temp folder into a ramdisk?
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where are “temporary files” cleaned by Windows 7 Disk Cleanup?
my disk cleanup seems unable to delete lotsa megs worth of "temporary files" that it sees, even after I went and deleted contents of various temp folders I found myself. I would like to try delete ...
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Files not accessible
My system is running on a pc with C:\ Drive out of space. So I tried to delete some file and clean up to get more space. I found that the %Temp% {C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp} takes lots of ...
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How to saving a skype group chat avatar or locate in temp files?
I'd like to make an edit to a skype group chat avatar, but my google-fu failed me in finding it and owing to antivirus stopping print screens, I'm unable to follow the advice of: Skype display picture ...
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Cannot seem to disable ability to view temporary internet files via group policy [closed]
Duplicate on Server Fault:
Cannot seem to disable ability to view temporary internet files via group policy
Windows XP Pro SP3, IE8 (8.0.6001.18702), within local gpedit.msc I did the below:
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Photoshop CS4 Temp file
Why Photoshop CS4 after opening several .PSD files and closing them (without closing Photoshop) don't clear it's Temp file? Only after closing Photoshop it clears Temp files.
What to do to ...
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I selected “open” file to download in IE but my computer restarted, can I retrieve it?
I am using Internet Explorer 9 and when downloading a large file I clicked "open" but then my computer got restarted (presumably after the download finished). Can I retrieve the download? I'm not sure ...
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What are the “bogus” files in IE's temporary files?
I'm just running CCleaner to tidy my computer up, and as it was deleting IE's temporary files I noticed a lot of them were named "something_bogus[1]". Why are these files named "bogus"? What's "bogus" ...
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No .tmp file for streaming videos in Temp folder of Windows Xp
I am on Windows XP professional sp2.
When i open any youtube video on any browser , .tmp files are not created in temp folder.
i was able to download videos with this trick previously but i don't know ...
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Is it safe to change %TEMP% and %TMP% to a custom location?
I have an SSD drive that is nearly full and I'm looking for options to free up space. I noticed C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Temp has several gigs of data. Is it safe to change the User ...
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What is the directory “C:\Users\TEMP”?
I would like to know what the purpose of the directory C:\Users\TEMP in Windows 7 is. I am installing Aptana from the Admin account and it is trying to place files there, specifically, in ...
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Unable to set read-only property on temp folder
I'm trying to make the \documentsettings\user\temp folder as read only to prevent files from writing files into it ( I have reasons to do so). But I've tried all the basic methods of doing so, from ...
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How do I set the TEMP environment variable for the “Network Service” user?
We have a system that uses Path.GetTempFile and Path.GetTempPath calls to work with temporary files fairly frequently. This system also runs as the "Network Service" user. We're finding that we're ...
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Mount -a on reboot after modifying /etc/fstab
I added the third line to /etc/fstab.
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
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Temporary MS PPT files
I have a copy of a presentation that I was working on and saving via flash drive. The flash drive has since been rendered inoperable (snapped in half). Is there anyway to recover the files saved to ...
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Temporary directory monitor [closed]
I am looking for a Windows program that will run in background and monitor given directories. Base on rules, ie. 'Delete files older than 90 days' it will perform cleanup of monitored directories. Is ...
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Windows 7 unneeded files
I have 60GB SSD, and I had like 10GB of free space, before I installed 1.5GBs of updates. Now I have 1GB. So, where are those win update installation files, and any other temp or unneeded trash files?
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Unable to delete lucene file in %temp% folder windows 7?
I have a computer running Window 7 Ultimate. When I try to delete all the files in the %temp% folder a file named lucene-b0c1305e43fd8579e46466c31b4fedb9-commit.lock keeps on generating again and ...
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varios files like `MbcYHt` all over my filesystem. where are they coming from?
Recently, I noted that some directories of my server are cluttered with files like MbcYHt, KZDmv_, K40bS9, etc., i.e. always a filename of size 6 which seems to be base64 encoded. The file size is ...
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How to change the location where Windows XP caches its RAM or temporary files?
I'm using SSD as my OS drive, and I can say it's really slow when a painting program uses the undo memory. It stores them somewhere, which I don't know where, but I guess it's using the SSD since I ...
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how to restore a file saved in the .tmp folder of ubuntu?
One of my friends was working on a 10 page college paper, and saved it in the tmp folder of ubuntu. The file is listed under LibreOffice Writer's "recent files" but when clicked on, it comes up with ...
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How can I tell if somebody is logged in with Temp Profile?
I have a user that is logged on but i dont think that their profile has loaded properly. I click on the start menu and it shows the correct username, but im wondering is there a way (once im logged ...
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Where is the temporary directory in Linux?
Does Linux have a standard temporary directory for general use, like Windows's C:\Temp folder? If so, where is it located? I found an SO question about finding a tmp directory programmatically, but I ...
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Why was the %Temp% folder invented?
Why was the %Temp% folder invented?
Why will any program ever need to have to have a temporary folder for data? Can they not just use the RAM or any other temporary storage?
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Windows 7 disk errors after a few hours of runtime
I'm having trouble understanding what is going on with my work PC. Whenever I boot it, it runs fine for a while, then starts to randomly show disk errors. The displayed error often contains the ...
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Temporary files folder
There's this folder on WinXP: C:\Documents and Settings[admin name]\Local Settings\Temp
It's used for temporary files.
The question is: how is this folder populated?? What types of software (does ...
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How to stop Word from creating temporary files in the same directory?
When I open a Word document, it creates files in the same directory with a syntax like ~$documentname.docx.
Is there a way to eliminate it or tell Word to save those to a temporary directory? It ...
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do files in the temporary folders get automatically deleted?
We are thinking to make our web application hosted on a windows server 2003 machine create temporary files, and "leave" it there as such. We won't manually take any action on them. So will these files ...
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Avoid Powerpoint(/Word) 2010 creating temporary files in working directory
When opening a temporary file, Powerpoint 2010 usually creates a temporary, hidden file called ~$filename.pptx in the same directory. This is undesirable, since it can cause unnecessary activity with ...
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When is a Windows User's Temp directory cleaned out?
When does Windows clear this directory? The only time it seems to is when running disk cleanup tool one is given the option..
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Is it good practice to create subfolders off the %TEMP% folder?
If I look at my %TEMP% folder (that is, C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Local Settings\Temp\), I see some applications stick stuff in there, and some applications stick it into a subfolder off there. ...
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Where does Internet Explorer keep downloaded files that are merely “opened” on Windows 7?
I decided to open a file instead of saving it, made lots of changes saved many times, but when I closed it, I realised I couldn't find it anymore.
I'm hopping the file is still here, but can't find ...
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Security concerns with moving temp folder in Windows 7
I'm thinking about moving the Windows 7 temp folders to a different partition to prevent excessive fragmentation. However, my concern is that if I simply change %TEMP%, user specific temporary files ...
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Is there any software for cleaning Windows' temp folder?
Is there any software for cleaning Windows' local settings / temp folder?
With no installing, not many options, just a simple, nice interface with buttons to do what's needed and which wouldn't ...
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Temporary Extract Directory
In my Windows 7 installation it created a 100MB partition. I am not sure what it is used for, but when I run certain installers it unpacks to that directory. e.g d:\somerandomvalue.
I have searched ...
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Flash Player is creating thousands of .tmp files
We have seen a number of machines in our environment (XP Pro SP3) that have been running out of disk space because of .TMP files in the windows\temp folder. One machine had 6GB of .TMP files on it ...
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Automatically deleting 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp'
I'm trying to find a way to automatically clean/delete the temporary files from C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp\ at shutdown/boot on my Windows XP Professional x64 SP2 machine.
The ...
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Mount External Hard Drive on Ubuntu 10.04 Across Network
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on two separate machines on a network (Ubuntu machine A and B). I am running some tests with temp files for some other software, installed on Ubuntu machine A. The software ...
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Firefox temporary files in Mac OS X
When using Firefox in OS X where are the temporary files stored?
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Cleaning temp folders on Windows
How are the temp folders on Windows supposed to work? On my Vista PC I notice they simply get larger and larger. I presume I'd eventually just run out of space (I'm already getting low because of ...
