Temp files generated by Xojo IDE

General
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My Windows system is being bogged down by a crazy amount of temp files. As I am using three different version of Xojo IDE, the situation is not getting better.
Many of the development tools I am using generate a fantastic amount temp files that are just laying there. Two of my other tools at least have the courtesy of creating their temp files in clearly named directories that I can delete on a regular basis without any harm.

Boy, do I wish Xojo IDE would do that as well… <https://xojo.com/issue/44121>

/Mattias

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You can use a utility like Advanced SystemCare which does a very good job to keep your system running at maximum performance. Your temp files will also be deleted.

What you also can do is deleting this temp files manually.

A good designed application does delete this temp files automatically when they became useless. Its easy to do for a developer.

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Did you get an eye where the local help files are stored ?

If not and if you will go there, be prepared to a… SURPRISE !

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Worst: Terratec Home Cinema (THC) store the temporary files in a folder (boot hd by default) to let you watch some back minutes of TV (TNT TV / DVB TV)… in many files…

I have to change the folder where it save these because my Boot SSD is only 64GB… It bugged my Xojo use, and had troubles in showing the TV (1 or 2 seconds snowdown).

Two evenings ago, I had to quit THC because it had troubles (too many temporary files ?)*. After reboot, the trouble disappears.

  • I get that trouble when using THC and MICE concurrently. (a two seconds buzz sound) indicating a low memory condition (IMHO).
5

I am using Sencha JS framework and the compilation tools are producing tons of files. However, they are all nicely located under Sencha\Cmd\6.1.1.17 and each to narrow down for deletion.

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Periodically I run the command “DEL %TEMP%\. /Q” which seems to work quite well for me whether Xojo is running or not.

Xojo is not the only windows candidate for cleanup either.

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My main point with this was that since Xojo is using the format rbxNNNN.tmp for the filenames, it will be increasingly harder and harder for the IDE to find a new temp filename (OK, 65535 files). Running three versions of Xojo on my system and the full set of MBS and Einhugur plugins I currently have about 26000 rbxNNNN.tmp files in the directory. That’s half-way there on the 65535… If they just could keep to a directory based on the IDE version I’d be happy.

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I see your point and agree it is not ideal, but that little command cleans up my temp space quite nicely for a number of products including Xojo.

I’m also sure Xojo runs better with a clean temp folder.

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You can also use a simple tool like CCleaner, which is free.

10

Why not make a batch file with Wayne’s command in it and use the Windows Scheduler to run it every so often.

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We always launch REAL Studio with a Batch File, so that the Cache-files get deleted (sometimes one gets “weird” behavior if those exist). You could easily add deleting the Temp-files, too.

Here’s an example (needs of course modification to launch Xojo).

[code]@echo off
set cache=C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Real Studio
set exe=C:\Program Files (x86)\REAL Software\Real Studio 2011r3\Real Studio 2011.exe

echo Cache is being deleted…
echo %cache%
del /Q /S “%cache%\.”

echo.
echo Launching REAL Studio…
START “REALStudio” /B /HIGH “%exe%”[/code]