Yeah I get up to 500 or so each week, even though they are mostly
0-Byte in size they take up heaps of space on your HDD cause EVERY
file is allocated a "Minimum" size on the HDD and collectively a few
hundred can add up to a lot of wasted space,
this is known as "Slack Space" and your defrag prog may give you stats
of the amout of this space you have, check it before and after you
delete the files and you'll get a BIG surprise ;)
As well as that when you run a defrag, it takes ages, because it's got
so many more File-Entries on the HDD to process, also same if you
delete heaps of them at once, your machine may seem to "Hang" as the
HDD re-writes hundreds or thousands of FAT-entries...
...just wait for it to finish gracefully!
If you panic or are impatient and hit the "Off" button while it is in
this state then you risk causing errors which will require fixing
(Scandisk ect)....yuk.
====== Wednesday, April 11, 2001, you wrote:
AS> Hello,
AS> there are dozents of temp files in the temp-dir.
AS> They are still there when I close TB.
AS> Is that usual?
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