Temp folder

Hi,

I was just poking thru my temp folder and I saw that it was 2+gigs in size. Is it safe for me to delete everything in here and not screw up my computer? I notice that a hell of alot of files have the '.tmp' extension so mebbe they're not being used nemore.

Tnx.

_sheep

Well personally i have neaver had any problems when clearing out my temp folder, afaik it just contains files needed during installs and various things like that. Temp meaning Temporary so im sure you'll have np's

daveirl

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kewl tnx

KdjaCL

Safest way is to delete everything older than one day in it.

Tho i was always unsure about the folders in there (xp pro) so i only deleted the ones that were in englsih.

Can they be deleted ?
kdja

mike65

Originally posted by Jabba
Hi,

I was just poking thru my temp folder and I saw that it was 2+gigs in size.

:eek: I have less than 1 gb free on my win98 disk! (its only 3.5gb in size)

Mike.

There are 2 particularly large files there called : ~PST7000.tmp and ~PSR2719.tmp. They are 715MB and 1.3 Gigs respectivley. Anyone know what they do? I googled it and came up with nothing.

Oh ffs I found ANOTHER 2 fiels measuring in at 1.12 gigs each! AND I dont know what they do. they are s3vveust.6 and s3vveust.7 . Anyone help?

phaxx

I believe the ~PST.... ones are Photoshop.

daveirl

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mike65

http://www.ngthomas.co.uk/WnBrowse/wnbrowse.zip
for viewing files before you zap them.

Mike.

Mike this is a sample of what I got when I looked at the file:
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20-7F 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....... ......
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ .......
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 20-00 00 20 00 20 00 00 00 ..... . .. . ...
00000030 00 00 00 00 20 9F 40 7F-20 20 7F 40 7F 20 20 20 .... .
00000040 00 00 20 00 20 BF 40 20-00 00 20 00 20 00 00 00 .. . .@ .. . ...
00000050 00 20 7F 20 20 BF BF 20-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . .. ........
00000060 20 00 20 00 00 60 9F 40-00 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 . ..`.@. .....
00000070 00 00 00 00 40 9F 60 9F-40 BF 9F 20 00 00 00 00 ....@.`.@.. ....
00000080 00 00 00 20 9F BF 40 9F-60 9F 40 00 00 00 00 00 ... ..@.`.@.....
@......
000000A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ .......
000000B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Can I be the first to say wtf??? Still no closer to knowing whether its safe to delete. I know peeps have been saying its grand n all but I want to be 100% sure.

Frank Grimes

I've never had a problem deleting anything from the temp folder, it is just a temporary folder
As has been said, if you're that worried just backup the folder to another location, then delete it.

daveirl

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D-Generate

Dave lives with me so I will make sure he eats a hat if it breaks your computer which it won't.

mike65

Originally posted by Jabba
Mike this is a sample of what I got when I looked at the file:
0 ................
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 etc

Can I be the first to say wtf??? Still no closer to knowing whether its safe to delete. I know peeps have been saying its grand n all but I want to be 100% sure.

In File click Show Information and click More beside Program Version Information (if it shows) it could tell you quite a bit.

Mike.

Blade

When it's got the extension .tmp it's just sitting there and not being used by your computer. Perfectly safe to delete, unless you renamed it yourself, which I doubt. Use that prog that Mike said and you might find out the files original name and type. Assuming thats what your prog does Mike.

While on the subject I just wanted to tell yous, though I'm sure a lot of you already know, that theres a directory called content.ie5 whos content you can also delete. It's just a load of graphics from web sites you will have picked up over time. It's not the normal cache of graphics that disk cleanup will delete for you.

Ryo Hazuki

Somone may have said this but I didnt read all the posts.

The files in the temp folder are only used by applications currently running and as such are safe to delete.

If you have a program running, such as photoshop, it may stop you deleting some files as its currently using them.

Close all programs and delete everything from the temp folder, its perfectly safe.

My temp folder is always empty, Its just a waste of space to leave files in it.

uch

The Temp folder in Windows is where the operating system and running programs keep temporary code that is used to open specific files, almost every application creates Temp files but they should also get rid of them when it is finished with them, so It's perfectly safe to delete anything from the Temp folder.
If it's causing you a problem with space on your root partition you can redirect the temp files to another temp folder on a different partition using your environment Variables Tab in system properties

Kewl! thanx alot guys . everything worked out nicely