safe to delete folder?

BlueMak · Jul 31, 2010, 12:05 AM

Vista 64
users\user\appdata\local\temp

Is it safe to delete the files in this temp folder?

It's several GB in size.

IvanV · Jul 31, 2010, 12:21 AM

To my experience, yes. Any files still needed should be locked and Windows wouldn't delete them.

PruritusAni · Jul 31, 2010, 12:56 AM

To be on the safer side just copy the contents into a new folder, delete everything, restart, and if no problems occur, dispose of the backup.

**kris23** · Jul 31, 2010, 01:18 AM

isnt that the folder that houses files that were downloaded off the internet for temporary use?

eg. clicking run rather than save in IE i think downloads stuff to that folder.

RoyBatty · Jul 31, 2010, 08:09 AM

Use the Disk Cleanup tool, if the files are safe to delete it should remove them.

kris23: I think that's the Temporary Internet Files folder.

BlueMak · Jul 31, 2010, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RoyBatty

Use the Disk Cleanup tool, if the files are safe to delete it should remove them.

kris23: I think that's the Temporary Internet Files folder.

DC doesn't touch it.

***craig5320*** · Jul 31, 2010, 09:41 AM

Well I don't think anyone can give a definitive answer, but in my experience if it's in the temp folder then it's safe to delete. As has been said copy it to a new folder delete and reboot.

RoyBatty · Jul 31, 2010, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueMak

DC doesn't touch it.

Then I would do what others suggest - backup and delete.

**temeteus82** · Jul 31, 2010, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueMak

Vista 64
users\user\appdata\local\temp

Is it safe to delete the files in this temp folder?

It's several GB in size.

CCleaner should clean that folder... it's the systems temp folder. Back in the days of DOS and Windows 3.11 I had following command in autoexec.bat [SET TEMP=C:\TEMP\]

BlueMak · Jul 31, 2010, 11:16 AM

I found the answer.

I was pissed off with Copernicus Desktop Search (how has this thing won anything?) and re-enabled the Windows Search. Or at least I thought I re enabled it because I never disabled it properly.

Earlier today I was (guess) pissed off with Windows Search. So this time I properly disabled it.

For some other reason I went to check the specific temp folder and most of the files were gone, just two small ones remaining.
It looks that either of the two desktop search programs was causing this.

I then deleted the last remaining edb file from Search (Windows Search index file) which in a couple of seconds it took me to do the procedure grew to a couple hundred megabytes.

The last thing wasn't connected, I just though to mention it.

Thank you all for your replies and +rep where possible is coming up.

Judas · Jul 31, 2010, 04:17 PM

yes Delete everything in this system..

it is best to restart the computer FIRST just make sure that anything that is required to be applied on reboot is already done..

Jul 31, 2010, 12:05 AM	#1
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Jul 31, 2010, 11:16 AM	Thread Starter #10
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,483 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: safe to delete folder? I found the answer. I was pissed off with Copernicus Desktop Search (how has this thing won anything?) and re-enabled the Windows Search. Or at least I thought I re enabled it because I never disabled it properly. Earlier today I was (guess) pissed off with Windows Search. So this time I properly disabled it. For some other reason I went to check the specific temp folder and most of the files were gone, just two small ones remaining. It looks that either of the two desktop search programs was causing this. I then deleted the last remaining edb file from Search (Windows Search index file) which in a couple of seconds it took me to do the procedure grew to a couple hundred megabytes. The last thing wasn't connected, I just though to mention it. Thank you all for your replies and +rep where possible is coming up. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*