Folder named "TEMP" contains 39gb

[eskilfm]

Today when I checked disk space on my computer I saw that my SSD was nearly full. I saw that my user folder contained 43gb, something I found really wierd. I looked through the folder and didnt find anymore than 2-3gb used. I enabled hidden folders, went into AppData and found a folder called Temp that contained 39gb.
What is this, can I delete or move it to my D-drive?

Please help, thanks.

[Deleted]

it is temp, so everything what is inside can be removed.

[hutchzilla]

Should cause you no problems at all, empty away! You may find some files will not delete or move - they will be locked if open in another program

[Sunius]

Delete it. It's safe to remove.

[Rukentuts]

it is temp, so everything what is inside can be removed.

This post answered the thread. Just clear your temp files once in awhile. They're not meant to be around forever.

[eskilfm]

Alright, thanks guys!

[Deleted]

Well, we all know where OP stashes his midget porn.

[Belize]

Well, we all know where OP stashes his midget porn.

It's ironic it takes up so much place, you know, since they're small.

[Deleted]

Well, we all know where OP stashes his midget porn.

No offense but the politically correct term is hobbit porn.

[Mnevis]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...7-a76c0b450818

How to assign your temp folders to your D drive. There are a few other things like your Index and your User folder that are easily moved out of a standard OS drive, just do some searching on how to optimize SSD space. I don't know how much not having your Temp folder on your SSD affects speed, but it would definitely increase the life of an SSD (not that # of writes as huge a concern anymore) and usable space.

[Skez]

For all these problems I recommend downloading TreeSize (http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) to scan and see where you disk space has gone. There's normally some pagefiles as well which takes up like 8Gb or something (which can be pretty much on a small SSD) which can be relocated to another drive (for example).

Temp is obviously short for temporary and are folders where programs or the system is storing temporary files. The programs are supposed to delete them but most often they don't. Like other people mentioned it's safe to delete everything inside.

The program I mentioned above is a great way to keep track of where the most of your disk space has gone.

[Kalthera]

After clearing the current temp folder, you could also relocate your 'user' temp folder by renaming 'Temp' to something else, then create a new folder someplace off your SSD (eg, D:\Temp) and finally, running these commands in a command prompt:

cd /d %LocalAppData%
mklink /d Temp D:\Temp

Untested; this will create a directory (mklink /d) Symbolic Link, a shortcut if you will, that basically tells the file system 'go to D:\Temp for anything accessing %LocalAppData%\Temp'.

Edit: Heh, someone beat me to it with the less hackish way to move %temp%

[imabanana]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...7-a76c0b450818

How to assign your temp folders to your D drive. There are a few other things like your Index and your User folder that are easily moved out of a standard OS drive, just do some searching on how to optimize SSD space. I don't know how much not having your Temp folder on your SSD affects speed, but it would definitely increase the life of an SSD (not that # of writes as huge a concern anymore) and usable space.

It can be a huge performance loss depending on application.

Applications define what they want to use this folder for (which is often "nothing"). If you have such massive temp directory I'd guess some applications you use make a really big use of it, if moved to non-SSD drive, these applications may get significantly slower.

[Tradewind]

This is why I love Disk Cleanup!

[swineflu]

when we service computers we always delete the following directories in Windows 7:

C:\users\username\appdata\local\temp
C:\windows\prefetch
C:\windows\temp