ITunes .tmp files -- Over 8.5 Gb of them

I've got over 8.5 Gb .tmp files in my My Music/iTunes folder. This is comprised of over 175 .tmp files. It doesn't appear that most of these files have been accessed anytime recently. My music files are stored on another (internal hard drive), not within My Docs.
Yates, are the .tmp files showing up on the same level in your itunes folder as your itunes library .itl and .xml files?
if so, that's usually associated with security software interfering with itunes writes to your library files:
What are the iTunes Library files?
(it's actually more common on a Mac than on Windows PCs, but i've seen it reported every now and then on Windows PCs dating back to the itunes 4.9 days.)
what makes and models of antivirus and/or antispyware packages are you running? by any chance, is it nod32?
(i don't have a good feel for which packages are more likely to cause this, but we had an example of this show up in itunes 6.0.5.20 that turned out to be associated with nod32.)

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But, I want to go further and add to and edit the shared library (i.e. the one on the Mini) using iTunes on my MacBook. Am I able to also access the library file stored on the Mini from iTunes on the MacBook pro, so I am using the same library file on two instances of iTunes on two different computers?
Currently when I try (by opening iTunes on the MacBook while holding down option, and 'choosing' the library on the Mini, i get the following error message:
The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file.
Perhaps this is a bridge too far, but I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Matthew

Apart from the user permissions issue which could probably require you adjusting user permissions on the files on the mini, you cannot have the library file open in two running iTunes concurrently.

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When students save their work to the network share they become .tmp files and are unrecoverable.

Hello,
The student in our photoshop class have run into an issue when trying to save files. They appear to save fine, however, when they go to open them the files read as .tmp and will not open with Photoshop. Please help.

This is the boilerplate text often used in connection to saving to a network (please NOTE the part where it explains that normally, it does work, but that it is impossible to troubleshoot someone else's network remotely, and that's why it's not supported by Adobe):
If you are opening files over a network or saving them to a network server, please cease and desist immediately in the event you are currently experiencing problems with one or more files. Working across a network is not supported.
See:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406793.html
Copy the CLOSED file from your server to your local hard disk, work on it, save it again to your local hard disk, close it, and copy the closed file back to the server.
Of course, the fact that Adobe does not support working across a network does not necessarily mean it won't work. It should.
Adobe's position is that there are too many variables in a network environment for them to guarantee that everything will work correctly in every network, especially given the fact that if something does not work properly, it's probably the network's fault, and Adobe has no way of troubleshooting your network.
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How do I change the location of the tmp files? I do not want them to write to the C:\ Drive where the OS is installed. I would like to use my D or E drive which has a lot more room.
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1000'S OF iT.TMP FILES IN ItUNES DIRECTORY! ???

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Aloha,
After having spent months adding my CD collection to iTunes--over 41 GB worth-- I discovered in the \My Documents\My Music\iTunes folder, right below the iTunes library files were 1000's of IT.tmp files totaling over 7 GB! I only saw this because I was sitting at my computer when it did a backup one night instead of leaving it alone.
I talked with iTunes Tech by phone..they hadn't a clue and just said to delete them, which I did. But iTunes is still doing it and does not delete them when the program closes!
Has anyone else had the same experience? Does anyone know why iTunes is doing this and...maybe...have a fix?
Thanks and Mahalo for your resposnes.
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Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i

Aloha Katrina,
Ah Ha ! I must be slow late at night! The .tmp files are the iTunes Music Library.xml as it gets bigger!
I moved the .dll file for Uplayme into a backup folder, then launched iTunes and imported two cds..actually three..Sun Kil Moon's "April" has a short bonus disk. I only got two iT.tmp files, instead of one per track...a great improvement! I'll have to try it again when Ihave a bunch of new ones -- after my next Honolulu business trip. I may try fully uninstalling Uplayme and see what happens then, because it doesn't happen, as I said, on my other laptop with only iConcert Cal as a plugin.
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Hm ... I guess I can't edit the post above. Anyway, I seem to have solved it by ...
Quitting iTunes.
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Entering Time Machine, and restoring the "iTunes Library.itl" file from a few days ago. I went back two days, which seemed far enough back to be "before" the problem but not far enough back to have trouble with recent acquisitions.
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