368380 - lots of temp files left around

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

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lots of temp files left around

I was playing around in %TMP% on windows (C:\DOCUME~1\mozilla\LOCALS~1\Temp for me), and I noticed a lot of .tmp files lying around.

nsmail.eml (1-10), nscopy.tmp (1-34), nscpmsg.txt (1-2), moz-screenshot (1-30), nsmail.html (1-2), nsmail.tmp

These are mostly from January 07.  I'm on tbird beta 2 on windows xp, version 2 beta 2 (20070125)

david writes:    "There are definitely situations where we leak temp files, and eventually it slows things down, when we try to find an available temp file.  I definitely have some. Yours look like all sorts of operations are leaking temp files.  We should really cleanup temp files on startup."

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

I'm knowling not deleting moz-screenshot images from the temp directory in order to let stand alone composer support pasting of clipboard images. 

Not sure about nsmail or nscopy files though.

Comment 2

[Herbert Baumberger]

I have removed 8GB of temp files this morning. it looks like a file is cereated and left to rot for ever incoming eMail. eMails with attachments end up as large orphan files.

Could this be an interference with Symantec Endpoint Protection?

i have a series of similar filese here:
s5sc
s5sc.1
s5sc.2
s5sc.3

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

To Herbert Baumberger:

Put shortcut of following bat file in "Start Up" folder of your MS Win.
> DEL-TEMP.BAT
>   DEL %temp%\*.* /S /F /Q
This is very usual/popular/simple/easy technique used since MS DOS era.
If the shortcut is put in "Start Up" folder of "All Users", "clean up of %temp%" works upon login of any MS Win user of your PC.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Anyone in this bug still see the problem ?

(In reply to Herbert Baumberger from comment #2)

...>
i have a series of similar files here:
s5sc
s5sc.1

I don't see that these are related to us.

Comment 5

[hf]

I can confirm the problem in Windows 10 64 bit. In c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\ files like nscopy.tmp, nsemail.eml and nsemail-*.eml accumulate. They can be deleted manually but are not deleted when leaving Thunderbird.