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do files in the temporary folders get automatically deleted?

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Mar 15, 202648951 views
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We are thinking to make our web application hosted on a windows server 2003 machine create temporary files, and "leave" it there as such. We won't manually take any action on them. So will these files get automatically deleted? Or is there some sort of policy we have to configure - like these files…

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No, there's nothing turned on by default in Windows that will automatically delete temp files. Not on shutdown, not on reboot, not ever. The Disk Cleanup tool has an option to do that when its run. The proper way to handle this is for your web appli…

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