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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMP files - REAL BIG
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:23:07 -0500
References: <200304011545_MC3-1-3244-D0E@compuserve.com>


Glen, if you would shut down and reboot every once in a while, those
bloated temp files would be ereased.

bob gillis

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.
>
> 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
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