Temporary junk files?

[polygonslayer]

Hi, While I have been adding info and games to Launchbox I have noticed that my C drive has gone down in space by quite a bit. I ran Windirstat and found that in \AppData\Local\Temp there were a bunch of what seems to be either backup, or in progress versions of LaunchBox.xml. All in weird names. I could even open them in Notepad++ I assume these are not needed and we should delete them? Mine counted into a whopping 140gb!!!! Space I would like for other stuff :P Is this an issue others have found as well? Is it supposed to delete these itself (LB) ? I tried to cut/pase them into another place to see if LB worked fine and it seems to be totally fine. So I take it they are just junk? Cheers

[Jason Carr]

Ah, good find polygonslayer. I added a change relatively recently to save to the temp folder first in order to help prevent data corruption. I had no idea the size of it could get so significant. I'll add something to clean up that folder. :)

[spycat]

The AppData folder is one of many normally hidden folders in Windows. While LaunchBox doesn't create a folder in here, I've noticed that a LaunchBox update can leave png images behind in the AppData\Local\Temp folder. Regular use of something like CCleaner cleans up the AppData\Local\Temp folder amongst others. Also the Updates folder in LaunchBox itself can build up (approximately 50MB per download) over many updates and can be cleared manually. But 140GB of leftovers in Temp even if since the beginning of LaunchBox. Very odd indeed!

[Jason Carr]

Yeah, holy crap. 140 gigs. So if your LaunchBox.xml is 10 megs (which is a rather large LaunchBox.xml file), that would mean there would have to be 14,000 copies of it in your temp folder. That's a lot of copies.

[rogers gomez]

Are you want to delete junk files.. try Krojam Cleaner program.It is a great cleaner program.

[ckp]

i'm not seeing this xml problem in 6.12 (maybe it's just in 7.0 beta), but i am seeing lots of folders in %temp% with names like 5f6b5ee1-d8a7-400e-9b52-44bed9ca56ce containing png LB media file in each.

There have also always been an ungodly amount of LB backup xml files in the data folder. I wish you could cap those to only a few. They seem unlimited.

Yeah, I agree on the Updates folder. Need a limit on the number you keep there too I think.

[Jason Carr]

@ckp Can you give me more details on that stuff? LaunchBox shouldn't be using the system temp folder at all anymore so I'm confused there. What are the dates on those files in the %temp% folder?

It also doesn't add up for there to be backup files in the Data folder, as those should reside in the LaunchBox\Backups folder. Or is that what you meant? The LaunchBox\Backups folder should be restricted to 50 items.

[ckp]

1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:

Can you give me more details on that stuff?

I'm on 6.12 now. Ok, so maybe the dates on those folder and files were from earlier 6.x builds? I did a permanent delete already. But now that it's clean I'll check there on and off to see if it's staying clean of those png files.

Sorry, I did mean backup files in the Backups folder. 50? Oh my. That's a lot. Hehe, ok. 50 of each specific xml file from the data folder or 50 total files in the directory?

And in the updates folder I had MANY (over a gig), so I whacked those when I saw them.

 

Edit: you said "system temp" folder. Well, when I'm logged in %temp% is not the "system" temp folder. It's the user's temp folder. So I was talking about the user's temp folder.

Edited December 1, 2016 by ckp

[Jason Carr]

50 total. Yeah, it can be fairly large, but I'd recommend keeping at least one of each type just in case you run into an issue.

[ckp]

I actually just copy the Data folder manually every now and then when I feel it's a good thing to do before I get crazy in there. I don't really need the Backups folder files, but it's nice to have one or two of each in there anyway (just not 50).

[ckp]

Also, about the backup limit. Sounds like if you make changes 50 times in LB that change the same xml settings file, you will have effectively lost all your other xml file backups?

I'd rather see like a 5 limit per specific xml file.