Lightroom 3 fills up my C drive! HELP

hello,
i have a problem that duering work on lightroom 3 my "c" drive is shrinking and fills up to the point where my computer is stuck!
when i restart lightroom, the space is cleared.
a few things:
my catalouge is on drive D (via pref) - a totaly diffrent drive
my RAW cache is located on frive G - a totaly diffrent drive
i use "c" only for OS and software installations.
lightroom VER 3.0 (RAW 6.1)
i use an OCZ Revodrive 240GB (SSD PCIe drive) as my "c" OS drive.
i have noticed that there is a speciphic file that is causeing this:
C:users\"name"\AppData\Local\Temp and inside the temp folder there is a file:
cr_sdk_0846459.tmp
this file size increaces as i flip images and marking flags or color labels. (not even changes in develop)
i think this happands in photoshop as well just a different file.
this did not happaned before! i just updated my adobe collection in the update center and than lightroom started to behave like this.
computer -
I7-970
24GB RAM
OCZ RevoDrive for OS
i'll appreciate any help
tnx.

I suggest updaing to LR version 3.4 RC, and then check size of the CR_SDK temp file. There's a post here that discusses a simliar issue:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/762825#3331807
Dan Tull says:
FWIW, though it is not reflected in the release notes, a fix for this bug was included in 3.4 RC -- I cannot be sure that all forms of slowness which result in a large scratch file are fixed, but the one I had cornered is very dead in the 3.4 RC build (some were seeing more severe scratch file bloat than I witnessed, though in at least one case the slowdown was comparable). The fix was one that could definitely broad impact.
I don't know if anybody is still watching this thread, but if you were previously seeing this issue, definitely give 3.4 a spin and post your updates.
Thanks -- DT
You may also have to move other files or uninstall applications off of the SSD to free up some more C: drive space for LR.

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