Thread: Disappearing temp files in Windows
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Old 03-03-2018, 02:24 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl View Post
After looking around the web, I'm going to assume it has something to do with the Win10 update 1709 as it appears to be messing a lot of things up. There are security updates that affect Windows system files, so maybe that's the problem, or it wipes the temp files at a particular time - both times it happened around the same time of day.

I've checked my task manager, no weird program names, all my malware/virus scans come up clean, I haven't (knowingly) installed anything new, I haven't (knowingly) made any changes to my system. All I can think of is the update started to install things 3 days ago. Hopefully, with this new calibre update, it wont happen any more.
Why would you +assume+ it was a W10 update when many Thousands of other Calibre W10 users have no issues?
OTOH a 3rd party utility, as Kovid suggested, IS. Why? Because we all use different combinations of them.


BTW Windows HAS (and always had since W3) a 'Disk cleanup tool, that can clean standard 'TMP,TEMP files as part of its USER CONFIGURABLE scan. FWIW mine is set to mainly cleans temp, and old browser cache. Minimal.
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