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    Huge temp files, ccleaner won't delete them

    Just ran ccleaner for the first time in a few days and I stumbled across these 2 (over 900mb) temp files. I just let ccleaner do it's thing and when it finish it had deleted everything except from these 2. Can't find anything specific about them on the net, just wondering if I should be worried about this and if I just delete them or not.




    Rather large files, both were created pretty much exactly 6 days ago, ccleaner won't delete them.

    Any help appreciated!

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    Re: Huge temp files, ccleaner won't delete them

    Perhaps the reason it wouldn't delete them because they are still 'in use'? Other than that, I'd delete them.

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    Re: Huge temp files, ccleaner won't delete them

    You could alway temporarily (or perm if you want) install a utility like unlocker to see what process is keeping that file in use, with a pointer to troubleshooting it... It will let you just delete it too, but probably better to find out whats using it first.

    Dont believe it works on x64, I had to use an alternative at work, but cant remember the name. Give it a try

    JP

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    Re: Huge temp files, ccleaner won't delete them

    Just decided to delete them haha. Thanks anyway.

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    Re: Huge temp files, ccleaner won't delete them

    Process Explorer can search all open file & DLL handles. Just ctrl+f in the main window.
    http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe

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