On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 11:27:30 AM, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
S> I have been exploring my drive for wasted file space and have S> discovered 324 files in; S> C:\WINDOWS\TEMP S> The files are MOSTLY '0-byte' empty files, but there are 14 that S> are between 21 and 45MB each, with the filenames such as S> batA144.tmp. What are these files and are they related to TB! or S> not? Can they be deleted safely? The dates on them are all within S> the range of time since I installed TB!, and seem to coincide S> with dates that I may have upgraded versions, but I'm not S> positive about that aspect. None are newer (creation date) than S> May 2002. Viewing the smaller ones in Ultra-Edit reveals they S> containg email addresses, subject lines and what appear to be S> message ID's. S> Comments? Suggestions? These files represent almost half a GB S> of space being used (wasted?). I run my mailer on a laptop so S> that wherever I go I have ALL my messages, and I need to free S> some space on the system. This has been an occasional topic. Some people have experienced this and most haven't. Don't think anyone every figured out why. My 2 cents is that this is not a TB specific issue. Windows in general - regardless of which version - does not clean up after itself very well. Nor do many, many apps. Go to the average machine and you'll see tons of junk in temp. Everyone should run an occasional cleanup routine to get rid of stuff in the system temp and the user temp directories (latter is specific to W2K and Win XP.) Also note that with W2K and XP you can delete files based on access OR modified OR creation dates. Finally, it's often a good idea to run a login/logoff script in an enterprise environment to automate this process. jon -- jwayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
