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From: Glen Gallagher <>
Subject: [TMG] TMP files - REAL BIG
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:45:40 -0500


I just discovered that a LOT of free space on my hard drive had
disappeared -- 6 Gigabytes disappeared without any obvious reason -- and
when I tracked down what was taking up the space, it seems that something
that TMG did may have been responsible. So if anyone seems to have lost
hard drive space for no known reason, you may want to read the rest of this
message.

To find out what was taking up all the space, I used Windows to
search for big files on the hard drive - I picked files larger than 8
Megabytes as an arbitrary size to see if I could find the source of the
problem. What turned up was some REAL BIG files (quite a few of them in
the hundreds of Megabyte range), and some that were greater than a
Gigabyte.

The files were located in the following directory:

c:\Documents and Setting\USERNAME\Local Setting\Temp

This occurred on a Windows 2000 machine, I suppose it might appear
in a different directory under other operating systems. Also my actual
machine ID appeared where you see "USERNAME" above.

The files that I found were *.TMP files and several *.CDX files.
It was the *.CDX files (with their familiar TMG icon) that tipped me off
that TMG might have been the source of the problem. All the files were
dated March 10. I do not recall doing anything unusual that day or having
any problem, but it looks like something happened. I also found a string
of error messages in the error.txt file in my TMG directory which were
time-stamped on March 10. Bob Velke or any of you TMG people, if you're
interested, I can send you the contents of that file for your information.
I have no idea what the error messages mean.

I don't know if the above problem was actually caused by TMG - or
if the MUCH more likely operator error kind of problem might have been
responsible, but if you've lost any hard drive space, you may want to
consider the above information. I did delete all the *.TMP files and *.CDX
files from the above mentioned directory, and then removed them from the
recycle bin - actually the files took up so much space they wouldn't all
fit into the Recycle Bin. After doing all that my TMG runs just fine, and
I've reclaimed over 6 Gigabytes of hard drive space.



Glen


Glen Gallagher
http://www.lsorevolution.com/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GlenGallagher/index.htm

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