Yep - I'd say that any .tmp file is fair game. If any of them don't delete, it's because a process has it open, most likely, and then you can just leave that one alone.
Kurt On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife <[email protected]> wrote: > I was trying to uninstall Adobe Acrobat from one of my user’s PCs yesterday. > I got an error: > > > > Error 1711: An error occurred while writing installation information to > disk. Check to make sure > > Enough disk space is available, and click Retry, or Cancel to end the > installation. > > > > The drives have Gigs of free space, so that can’t be the issue. So, I > started digging around the internet. I came across this forum thread: > > > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/error-code-1711-an-error-occurred-while-writing/4b653560-0f3b-4e64-88e6-97ed6c48c0c0 > > > > The author fixed his issue by deleting the MSI*.tmp files from the > c:\windows\installer directory. So, I looked at my user’s PC. He also has > 65,534 MSI*.tmp files with a size of 0KB each. There is also one that has a > size of 99 MB, which I don’t think I’d want to delete, but is it safe to > delete the others, with no size? I’m thinking probably yes, since tmp files > are supposed to be “temporary”… but before I do something I might regret, I > thought I’d run it by you guys. > > > > My plan was to actually move them out of this directory, onto the D:\ drive > first, just to see what happens, but, again, just to be safe… > > > > Joe Heaton > > Enterprise Server Support > > Information Technology Operations Branch > > Data and Technology Division > > CA Department of Fish and Wildlife > > Desk: (916) 323-1284 > >
