Temporary Files ? location ? Permanancy

[carl munson]

Where are the Temp files stored and do them remain on the hard drive forever?

Is there a record on the hard drive on which, if any, discs are copied?

Thanks

 

[DetroitBaseball]

Where are the Temp files stored and do them remain on the hard drive forever?

Is there a record on the hard drive on which, if any, discs are copied?

Thanks

In MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, the temporary folder is set by the environment variable TEMP. Originally the default was c:\Temp, then C:\Windows\Temp. In modern versions, the temporary folder is set per-user as Local Settings\Temp.

As the name is indicative of, they do not remain on the hard drive forever. There should be no record of which discs are copied.

 

[carl munson]

Are they deleted AUTOMATICALLY?

 

[DetroitBaseball]

Are they deleted AUTOMATICALLY?

Yes. Many operating systems and some software automatically delete the contents of this directory at bootup or at regular intervals.