61822 - c:\windows\temp filling up with temp files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58979

Description

[K Chayka]

Using build 113020, win98se

Temporary files are being written to c:\windows\temp and are never deleted.

Mail-News: any message posted to a newsgroup get 2 files in temp -
nsmail.eml and nscopy.tmp. They get a sequence number appended and 
therefore accumulate (ugh!). This does not seem to happen with mail (smtp), just 
news.

Browser: some form posts get a formpost file in temp. These also get sequenced 
and accumulate. Try this:
Go to http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html and validate something on your 
hard-drive, then the formpost file appears in temp.

Plug-ins: For RealPlayer(8) a file gets created in temp containing the url of 
the file to play. I don't know if this happens for other plug-ins as well. (This 
is what got me on to the problem to begin with, since seeing c:\windows\temp in 
the RP location bar caught my eye.)

I don't mind files getting put in temp, but they ought to be deleted when they 
aren't needed any more! :)

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

couldn't find a dup, strangely enough.
The tracking bug for this is bug 60991

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mscott, would this belong to you? feel free to reassign, tho'...

Comment 3

[Jerry Baker]

This is a duplicate of bug 58979.

Comment 4

[K Chayka]

This is partially a duplicate of bug 58979.
I found the formpost problem also reported on Linux (bug 58690) and was marked a
duplicate of bug 15320.

Haven't found anything like this reported on plug-ins.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

gonna mark this a dup of bug 58979... if the plugin issue is really different
bug, then pls file a seperate one for that. thx!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58979 ***

Comment 6

[Azrael AOD]

Verifying as a duplicate of 58979
'store all compose temp files in directory under /tmp, and remove that directory
on quit'

Comment 7

[Jerry Baker]

Mass removing self from CC list.

Comment 8

[Jerry Baker]

Now I feel sumb because I have to add back. Sorry for the spam.