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Subject: Re: [TMG] TMP files - REAL BIG
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:40:51 -0500
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At 03:45 PM 1/04/2003, Glen Gallagher wrote:
> 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.
Glenn
Temporary files can build up from many programs and with any operating
system I have used.
The ones I find are there because of system crashes.
Programs frequently create temporary or "scratch" files which it planns to
delete after it is through with them. If the operating system or the
program crashes before the temp files are deleted they stay on the computer
using up space. I wrote a DOS batch file which deletes all the temp files
it can find every time I reboot my computer.
Walt
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