Temp files not removed
Having recently got Acronis more or less doing what I asked it to, I notice that I have a load of what appear to be temporary files sitting in the same folder as their original versions, named something like "AGH2HY3~filename.doc". I assume these have been left behind by some ATI process that I had to interrupt (usually because it was taking too long and hanging up my computer).
Am I right in thinking this is where they came from, and is there anything I can do about them apart from deleting each one when I notice it?
It is a bit of a problem having these files scattered throughout the file system - I would have thought they would be created in a separate folder and deleted by the software. Is there a cleanup function to deal with them?
Sorry, but this is nothing to do with Word, or Office. These files are appearing for every filetype and in every folder that is in the list for File backups (but not in the OS folders, that I have excluded from File backups). There are 17,461 of them. The filename follows the form:
[8 RANDOM CHARACTERS IN UPPERCASE]~[original filename.filetype]~
Any ideas?
If these files were produced by True Image they would normally have a tib suffix. What size are these temporary files, do they contain anything?
I'm trying to recall a problem that was in the beta version of 2013 concerning some temporary files (which was solved, I thing it involved empty files being created with an odd suffix), not withstanding my comment above. If you disable all Acronis services, do these files keep replicating?
Do these files allow themselves to be deleted, if not, what program is reported as using them?
I'm suspecting there might be a nasty hidden on your system.
This is now history because I decided I had to do something to reduce disk usage before departing on a business trip. So I figured out a way of searching for all files with the strange filenames and then deleted them. Nothing bad has so far become evident. However for the purposes of increasing the sum total of knowledge, here's what I managed to glean.
- All of the unwanted files had filenames in the form noted above: [8 RANDOM CHARACTERS IN UPPERCASE]~[original filename.filetype]~
- Doing a search for these in Windows 7 is another form of torture, because "~" is a special character in that OS's Search syntax. However the following search term seemed to find all the suspect files without including any others:
name:~"*~*.*~" - Each file was roughly the same size as its twinned original. The dates on the files were consistent with their having been created by either a backup or a restore around the time I had to restore my system.
I'd still like to know where these came from, if not from Acronis.