Missing Folders Hold huge files

[duane123]

How can I have the following situation with folder options "show hidden files" turned on and "hide protecting operating systms" turned off? There are gigabytes missing and I would like to clean it up but don't have a clue how to find them. The sum of all below the "Temp" folder don't exceed 500Mb, yet the Temp folder is showing 11,680Mb??


`- Local Settings (11.72 Gb)
|- History (864.22 Kb)
|- Temporary Internet Files (8.17 Mb)
|- Application Data (28.88 Mb)
`- Temp (11.68 Gb)
|- PMSBTEMP (0 Byte)
|- PMTEMP (0 Byte)
|- RarSFX0 (0 Byte)
|- bye11.tmp (0 Byte)
|- bye15.tmp (0 Byte)
|- bye1F5.tmp (0 Byte)
|- byeB.tmp (0 Byte)
|- byeF.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss1.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss10.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss12.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss13.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss16.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss18.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss1B5.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss1F6.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss2.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss3.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss3D.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss4.tmp (0 Byte)
|- iss58.tmp (0 Byte)
|- issE.tmp (0 Byte)
|- issF.tmp (0 Byte)
|- msohtml (0 Byte)
|- msohtml1 (0 Byte)
|- pft11.tmp (0 Byte)
|- pft15.tmp (0 Byte)
|- pftD.tmp (0 Byte)
|- {073C240E-F6B7-4B27-8628-B5B8FC8DBC30} (0 Byte)
|- {B2F74B54-B441-41ED-ACAA-BC96F649BD05} (0 Byte)
|- {BC84DAEA-CE17-488E-8D50-E55BB831E2F8} (0 Byte)
|- {D0DBEFDE-7533-4F2E-9AC6-D227D9E8B4D3} (0 Byte)
|- {DA13B1E3-4362-4442-8345-CCA945A8F760} (0 Byte)
|- {DCEA970D-BFD7-42E9-BDC9-87DCD67B3024} (0 Byte)
|- {E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A} (0 Byte)
|- {c1939820-a945-11d4-86f6-0001031e5712} (0 Byte)
|- ~nsu.tmp (0 Byte)
|- {B1C634D8-DFA5-452B-8CA1-53ED38202D15} (21 Bytes)
|- {FBA2EA3F-8111-4160-B67D-F8BD5EBE6A9E} (189 Bytes)
|- iss17.tmp (634 Bytes)
|- {66601937-EDBC-498C-97AF-95C348563E6B} (4.91 Kb)
|- {DCD9461C-1137-45E0-BAA4-E4A5AC81665D} (51.47 Kb)
|- {E6A043C9-EC31-4F8E-B285-8B4207232A3B} (51.47 Kb)
|- isp98.tmp (156.00 Kb)
|- RarSFX1 (192.00 Kb)
|- isp17.tmp (360.00 Kb)
|- isp1B.tmp (360.00 Kb)
|- isp5.tmp (360.00 Kb)
|- isp10.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- isp11.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- isp1A.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- isp1C.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- isp1D.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- isp6.tmp (372.00 Kb)
|- WMDM (409.30 Kb)
|- ~ef313c (512.00 Kb)
|- TempIFOs (596.00 Kb)
|- ~e5.0001.dir.0000 (815.53 Kb)
|- SqlSetup (836.00 Kb)
|- TempFolder.aaa (1.73 Mb)
|- WER1073.dir00 (4.95 Mb)
|- {EE0037FC-BA17-4385-8D40-BBD3ABFD6638} (8.29 Mb)
|- {CC2A89C4-5E48-4A48-A670-3AC70E9D3AB5} (38.20 Mb)
|- WERa3de.dir00 (131.50 Mb)
`- WERaee6.dir00 (131.50 Mb)

I am using "dfolder" size tab to find and print this out.

 

[duane123]

Sorry for this post - the answer was so obvious I couldn't see it. 12.8Gb were not in any folder just at the "Temp" root as separate files. Does anyone know what NVE[xx].tmp" files are? They seem to be numbered in the xx field randomly, perhaps hexidecimal?

 

[linney]

Have you got any clues by right-clicking these files and looking at the Properties?

This is just a guess but could they be something to do with "NeroVision Express"?

http://www.google.com/search?q=NeroVision+Express+temp+OR+temp+files+&rls=com.microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=NeroVision Express+temp OR temp files &rls=com.microsoft:

Can you use a file monitoring program to see what is creating the files?

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

 

[BadBigBen]

I would also suggest a program such as CCleaner or EasyCleaner, both will safely delete TMP files that are not needed anymore...

CCleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/

EasyCleaner

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[cpjust]

You should be deleting your .tmp files on a regular basis. I created a simple program that deletes all files in my temp directory and put it in my Startup folder.