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Firefox & temporary files (etilsq_*)
karotlopj:
I have a large number of files with a filename in the form etilqs_*.
I assume they are temporary files created by Firefox (38.2.1).
How should I clean them up?
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: John Poltorak on May 26, 2016, 03:10:51 pm ---I have a large number of files with a filename in the form etilqs_*.
I assume they are temporary files created by Firefox (38.2.1).
How should I clean them up?
--- End quote ---
I have exactly zero files with the name etilqs_* or etilsq_* (which is it?), so it is unlikely that they have anything to do with Firefox. What directory are they in?
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: John Poltorak on May 26, 2016, 03:10:51 pm ---I have a large number of files with a filename in the form etilqs_*.
I assume they are temporary files created by Firefox (38.2.1).
How should I clean them up?
--- End quote ---
Just delete them, preferably with FF closed otherwise some may be locked. They seem to be sqlite3 temporary files and really Mozilla should clean them up when closed.
Ideally is a script to clean %TMP% when booting up or what I did is have %TMP% on a ramfs.ifs volume.
Have to think about opening an issue as sqlite doesn't seem to properly close anymore.
DR34264:
The files are from qupzilla
Dave Yeo:
Actually there is a libc API for creating randomly named temporary files which I forget the name of so quite a few programs might output them. eg with SeaMonkey and Thunderbird running here,
--- Code: ---R:\tmp>file etilqs_YFmWMoHUZoAp9ephW8Hx
etilqs_YFmWMoHUZoAp9ephW8Hx: SQLite 3.x database
--- End code ---
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