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| From | Jim Dell <Jim.Dell@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files |
| Date | 2025-02-27 08:49 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vppqhm$34p30$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vpn7gg$2jeht$1@dont-email.me> <ifh0sj1b5q4qd1f0j73e2dvagbl7b1jj9f@4ax.com> |
John wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:12:32 -0500, Jim Dell <Jim.Dell@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Got a question about the files in %TEMP% >> >> There are thousands of them on my system >> >> If you run “dir %TEMP%” from a command prompt you’ll see them. >> >> Mostly mine are >> HeadlessChrome304648710500 >> scoped_dir304_1457881672 >> folders >> >> The only thing that changes is the numbers after the text. >> >> Yes, a run a Chrome Headless job. Is there a parameter to set to I >> should set to prevent the HeadlessChrome folders? >> >> I don’t know what is causing the scoped_dir folders from being created. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > Holee Fook! > > "2388 File(s) 2,093,232,224 bytes 1027 Dir(s)" > > Uhhhmm. Them is a *lot* of temporary files. Thank you for that. :) > > Win-7, 2013 desktop unit with 3 TB of spinny disk. I'm not unduly > worried about running out of space for the Temp files because: > "338,085,076,992 bytes free" on the C: partition. > > Apparently, I have several old VLC*.exe downloads lying around. Those > are 22 MB each. VLC isn't a tidy creature. I binned them all. Nothing > horrible happened. Binning temporary files usually doesn't break much > if anything. Mostly. Usually. Sometimes. > > I think I should "dir %TEMP% > Temp-file.txt" just so I can look at > it later. Probably much, much later. > > Hmmmm, you do know that "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Temp" is > not the only place that hides, secretes and sequesters temporary > files? They are dumped all over the place. > > Also, there may be other "Users" on your system. I have one called > "BOINC-User", for example. > > But thanks for prompting me to look at this. It was sort of fun. :) > > J. > > >> >> Jim Thanks for all the suggestions I have written a batch file that deletes all the folders & Files under %TEMP% I don't have Opera browser installed, so it's not the cause of the scoped folders Jim
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Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-27 15:00 +0000
Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Jim Dell <Jim.Dell@gmail.com> - 2025-02-27 08:49 -0500
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Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-02 15:20 +0000
Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-02 14:57 -0500
Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-02 20:28 +0000
Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-03 06:15 -0800
Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-02 14:44 -0600
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Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files Jim Dell <Jim.Dell@gmail.com> - 2025-03-01 19:11 -0500
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