On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 at 05:25:15 -0500 A Curtis Martin wrote:
> I just checked mine and found 1503 TB! related objects!! It
> amounted to just 48KB however. I've never emptied my temp
> directories since using NT and now 2k. Never had a problem. In
> fact the total size of the temp folder is 18MB.
Generally speaking, leftovers in the temp dir aren't really
problematic to our day-to-day operation. When there are too many of
them, however, it does slow down some programs' operation somewhat.
Each program has its unique way of generating temp file names, and
it has to check if a file of the same name is already in the dir. If
there are many leftovers in the dir from the same program, chances
are it would have to try more than once to get a unique file name.
Another matter is if a directory is too large (has too many files,
regardless of their size), directory-related operation would slow
down. Since temp dir is used by some many programs, it might slow
the system down. Whether it's observable is another matter.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.52 Beta/4 | Win2k SP1
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