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mtuckervisualedgeit's avatar
mtuckervisualedgeit
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

.tmp files being created in C:\Program files(x86)\Dropbox\Temp

I have a new computer that came with dropbox installed on it and I had never used it. Recent twice a day (once at 1:08pm and once at 1:08am) I get files in the location in C:\Program files(x86)\Dropb...
desktop
Storage space
Windows
slawson2000's avatar
slawson2000
New member | Level 1
3 months ago

Actually this is a friends computer so I do not have access a the moment.  He ran out of space on his hard drive and this seemed the culprit, about 125G.   However if you to the link above it looks almost identical to the picture in that thread.

The files are in the Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Temp folder and dated back a to September.  We deleted up to the beginning of December to get him operational. 

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