Safe to remove .tmp files?

havardoj · January 11th, 2009, 09:38 AM

Hi,

This is my first post to this forum, and I can't see that it has been posted in here before.

1. Why do I see a lot of .tmp files in my web site?
2. Can I prevent them from being created?
3. Is there a "clean up function" that deletes them?
4. Do I have to delete them manually?

I don't know what these files are for, or if I get into trouble if I remove them.

I also wish to thank the author for writing a very very well explained book! I am a newbie to asp.net programming, but not a totally newbie to programming. The book seems to be so well written that even my mother should be able to follow some of the chapters

regards,
HÃ¥vard.

Imar · January 11th, 2009, 10:03 AM

Hi there,

Good to hear you like the book so much.

Where exactly do you get these .tmp files? In what folder? And what name do they have?

AFAIK, VWD doesn't create .tmp files, so maybe they are from a different program like an image editor?

Imar

havardoj · January 11th, 2009, 10:19 AM

Hi again,

And thanks for quick reply!

After a little break in my "asp.net 3.5 programming course", I am now resuming. I have come almost to the end of chapter 9.
I have seen these tmp files in several of the directories in the Planet wrox project.
In the about directory, i see some of them, and in the Controls directory there are many.
There used to be some in the root of the website, and in some of the other directories, but I took a chance and deleted them some weeks ago.

They seem to have an auto generated name beginning with "ve-" and then som letters and numers, like this one: ve-3937.tmp

They contain C# code(as this is the language I'm trying to learn now).

Maybe it has to do with how I view the website? Building, rebuilding, with or without debugging, view in browser or "Browse with..." ?

Imar · January 11th, 2009, 10:28 AM

Strange; I never get those files, although I build / rebuild / debug / view in browser as well. You can safely delete them, as they aren't used by the application...

Cheers,

Imar

havardoj · January 11th, 2009, 10:37 AM

Thanks!

My computer sometimes has a will of its own, and does things like creating useless tmp files

By the way, I'm using VWD 2008 express on Vista Home Premium.

A more technically correct explanation is probably possible to come up with, but might not be worth the effort.

Thanks again, I might come back with more important and more complex questions later.

..HÃ¥vard..

Imar · January 11th, 2009, 12:20 PM

You're welcome. Good luck...

Imar