When is tmp emptied

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For example, in Cabin above — Doug Harris. Using OSX Show 4 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. TMP files tend to accumulate over time and take up a lot of disk space. All this said, I have to add an important note: not all TMP files are safe to remove. So how do I know when a TMP file can be removed or not?

Usually it is safe to assume that if a TMP file is several weeks or months old, you can delete. You can check the meta data to know when the file was created or last modified, by right clicking on the file and choosing Properties. For example when you are using a word processor and have the auto-save option enabled, the application will most probably create some form of temporary file to store the content of the document you're working on in some pre-defined location in your hard disk.

Other temp files as they are usually called, are created by the Windows and its default applications. One well known default application which creates hoards of temporary files is the Internet browser. Whenever you access a webpage, buy from an online shopping cart, access your email, your browser is transparently saving and caching some data pertaining to the action you've taken for various reasons.

One of the reasons is for optimizing your web experience and loading the web-pages you visit the most frequently faster. You can read about it in the periodic. Post marked as solved. Posted by ocworld. Thank you!! Trash on every drive you should just download Onyx, Maintenance or Deeper.

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