Location of Temp Files

When I open a PDF it is stored in Users/user-id/AppData/Local/Temp. I want to change this location to be on an encrypted drive since some PDF's have sensitive data. What setting will accomplish this?

In Tools|Options|General you will find two radio buttons in the downloads section(don't worry about the check box).
Select the first button if you want to save all of your downloads in one location. The <Browse> button to the right will let you pick the location.
If you don't want all of your downloads going to one location, select the second radio button. This will make FF ask you where do you want to save the file. It will ask the question for each and every download. A browser panel will open to let you navigate to the location where you want to save the file.

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Changing Location for Temp Files

My computer has a 20 GB Partion on a 150 GB drive that Encore is writing the temp files to. My question is can I change the directory that the files are written to?
Regards,
Jim Brown
Harris Multimedia Services

Thanks,
I figured that out minutes after I posted on this forum.
Regards,
Jim Brown,
Harris Corporation, Multimedia Center

Scratch Disc Full: Where are the temp files kept?

Hi,
I just tried to open a few of very large image files (9GB in total) and when I did I got the message "scratch discs full". Now I understand why that happened, but it seems to have eaten a whole load of disc space that wont come back. I've since closed photoshop, restarted my Mac, etc. but about 10 GB is still used up where it wasn't before. I can't locate any temp files anywhere (prefs only tells me the scratch disc is my Mac HD, not which folders it's in). Can anyone help me with this? Where are Ps temp files usually located on a Mac? I need those 10GB back!
Mac OSX running Photoshop CS3
Thank you!

Hi again Chris (or anyone else who cares to contribute),
My Mac's HD space continued to disappear and I have now, finally, located the cause (I think). I checked the system log (Stystem Profiler/Software/Logs/system.log) which was itself 4.5 GB in size (too large I think?). However, when I went to the file location (/var/log/system.log) I also noticed that the "asl" folder (in the same folder as the system log) was 20 GB in size!! Having read a few forum posts about similar issues, I took the risk of deleting both the system.log and the majority of files in the asl folder. This seems to have worked a treat (I now have 25GB returned to me).
As I said in my original post, this all started happening when I opened a few very big Photoshop docs (ones with layers). Do you have any idea what caused / is causing this to happen? I haven't opened Photoshop since deleting the asl files, but new ones still seem to be appearing in the asl folder. They are tiny (100KB at most) but I'm a little concerned I haven't fixed the problem. Any suggestions?
I can't see why new asl files would be appearing when I haven't even opened Photoshop.
I'm running on OS 10.5.8
Many thanks,
Matt
P.S. By the way, the size of the system.log seemed to be caused by a repeated message regarding RealPlayer, which I assume is unconnected, but I have included it below just in case (I've removed RealPlayer from my Mac to see if that helps, but the asl files still seem to be appearing):
Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: Failed to create window context device
Jul 28 18:16:09: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: _initWithWindowNumber: error creating graphics ctxt object for ctxt:0x1152b, window:0xffffffff
Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create context delegate.

The 2 year old fix for changing temp files is no longer valid, I need to change the temp file location in the latest firefox.

In 3.6.3 I'm unable to find the parent cache to change where the temp files are located. I have an SSD drive, and I need to get the temp file off, and onto my platter drive. I have read the previous fix of about:config and changing the parent cache location, but it no longer seems to be there. I'm unable to locate anything relating to my SSD drive location in about:config.
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.70 Safari/533.4

Unfortunately, it appears that what I wrote about not being able to find the location IN about:config of the cache to change it from my C: drive to a different location, was mildly misunderstood that I didn't know how to get into about:config.
The location of browser.cache.disk.parent_directory does not currently exist in 3.6.3. I'm assuming it's under a different location. Also using the simple string of "cache" lists several options, but none of them appear to be where firefox is currently dumping the temp files onto my C:
I merely need to know how to switch the temp file location from 1 drive, to another. Not downloads, the temp file.

I have LR 4 and now I cannot open the software because I get this warning: light room cannot start because it cannot create files in the temp file location.. C:/windows/temp. How do I fix this? I have removed and downloaded LR and even used by disc and st

I have LR 4 and now I cannot open the software because I get this warning: "light room cannot start because it cannot create files in the temp file location. C:\windows\temp\". I think I need to have LR open in a different place but I have no idea how to do that. Any help is most appreciated.
Alex

Jim
Thank you for your prompt reply. Unfortunately I am not that tech oriented and
cannot easily find that folder. I did notice when I was booting up the LR software
that I could accept the site where LR usually is set up or choose a place. I am
thinking that the standard location for LR software is corrupted and that if I
chose a different place it would work. I say this because whether I use my
original disc or download from adobe I get the same warning. I have 100GB of
memory on the hard drive and I have cleaned the computer with Mcaffee and free
software. What should I do next? I can't use this software and I doubt LR 5
would open up with my current problem.
Alex

I Lost Power to my PC while in Acrobat Reader and lost data, where is temp file located?

I lost power to my pc while typing a new acrobat reader file but never saved it, where is the default temp file located, if this exists? Thanks.

The answer to your question depends upon your version of Reader and your OS. Especially since the last version of Acrobat Reader was version 5 which is four majors versions ago. The last four versions have been called Adobe Reader, not Acrobat Reader. This the forum for the Acrobat commericial product, not the free reader product.
PDF files cannot be edited in Reader and fields filled in with Reader cannot be saved (unless especially enabled) canot be re-opened from the temp files. To make a long story short. You will need to re-type the information.
Sorry to be the bearer of the sad news.

Reader XI temp file location

We are having an issue with our Term server users. Since moving to a server 2012 windows 8 environment we are unable to use the comment function in reader XI, as you can see it is completely greyed out. Have tested the same pdf file off of the server and on older term servers and comment section works fine. We believe this is a permissions issue with the location of the temp file opened when you open a pdf. We are unable to find said location and have spent hours on the forums today with no luck. Help please.

We are having an issue with our Term server users. Since moving to a server 2012 windows 8 environment we are unable to use the comment function in reader XI, as you can see it is completely greyed out. Have tested the same pdf file off of the server and on older term servers and comment section works fine. We believe this is a permissions issue with the location of the temp file opened when you open a pdf. We are unable to find said location and have spent hours on the forums today with no luck. Help please.

Project Manager Trimmed Temp File Location

Hello,
I recently tried to trim down a 100GB project. I had 8GB left on my harddrive, and the project manager said the final project would be 7GB, so I took the chance and started trimming.
Unfortunately, I ran out of diskspace during the trim, and the Project Manager aborted the action. Fair enough. However, when I checked my diskspace in finder, I only had 100MB free space. That means the temp file, that the project manager created while trimming the project, is still stored somewhere. But I have no idea where it is stored or what it is named.
I'm on a Mac 10.6.4, CS5.
Do you know where (or how) to look?
Thanks,

Where are your Scratch Disks located?
What was the Destination Folder, that you directed PrPro to archive your Project?
Note that performance of a HDD begins to decline at ~ 70% of capacity, and falls off sharply, as one fills the drive. It can also contribute to premature failure of the HDD. Sounds like it's time to get larger, or more HDD's.
Good luck,
Hunt

Essbase Issue temp file location.

Is there a way to change the location where Essbase writes a temp file when data load(text file) is being done. It usually writes to Windows Temp location.
Also will Essbase writies similar temp file when data is loaded from sql too?
If anyone are familiar with this setting, please respond.
Appreciate any response.

Is there a way to change the location where Essbase writes a temp file when data load(text file) is being done. It usually writes to Windows Temp location.
Also will Essbase writies similar temp file when data is loaded from sql too?
If anyone are familiar with this setting, please respond.
Appreciate any response.

Temp file save location

1st Why is Itunes creating so many temp files?
2nd Can I change where Itunes saves these file? They are saving on "my music" folder which is part of our server, wasting valuable space. If I have to have these files I would like to save them to my C: drive where my music is actually stored.

The right side column "More like this" leads to some discussions with temp-file problems. For instance here an useful answer: https://discussions.apple.com/message/12995935#12995935 and here https://discussions.apple.com/message/6162742#6162742
It seems iTunes has problems to write to the correct file (.itl) and creates temp-files. The fix would be to "unblock"/enable the writing process again, so you don't get any temp-files and don't need to store them someplace else.

Groff / grops temp file location

I was bit by the sudo grace period bug. Because sudo has a brief grace period,
during which anyone can execute it without being prompted for a password, anyone
who makes it past the firewall can execute anything he wants if he knows when sudo
was last executed. One clever chap changed my root password on me.
I share this verbose background because I want others to be aware of this security hole.
Add these three lines to /etc/sudoers, which removes grace period and prints su activity
in a secure file (so no one knows when su or sudo is executed).
Defaults:ALL timestamp_timeout=0
Defaults:ALL !syslog
Defaults:ALL logfile=/var/log/secure.log
Now on to the question. Because I followed this inconvenience with a reset of all
permissions, I suddenly found that grops (the troff2ps postprocessor underlying
groff) no longer had permission to create temp files, rendering it defunct. I can
only run it successfully as root(!).
Because I cannot find the src for grops, I do not know where the temp files are
created. The man page's specification of /tmp/gropsXXXXX is incorrect. I need
to find that directory and liberalize the permissions.
Thank you.

Thank you for your interest in my other security issues. I was able to resecure root and the machine right away...
Great! Sorry I wasted your time with my post then. I must confess that I know pretty much nothing about groff/grops. But I didn't realize that you had simplified your post and weren't having further root problems.
That said, I hope the following isn't equally useless:
1. According to the groff man page:
<pre style="line-height: 50%; background: #eee">
GROFF_TMPDIR
The directory in which temporary files will be created. If this
is not set but the environment variable TMPDIR instead, tempo-
rary files will be created in the directory $TMPDIR. On MS-DOS
and Windows 32 platforms, the environment variables TMP and TEMP
(in that order) are searched also, after GROFF_TMPDIR and
TMPDIR. Otherwise, temporary files will be created in /tmp.
The refer(1), groffer(1), grohtml(1), and grops(1) commands use
temporary files.
</pre>
To my surprise, $TMPDIR is set to something seemingly obscure: /var/folders/XX/XXYYYYYYYYYYYYY/-Tmp-/ where XX is a random pair of characters and YYYYYYYYYYYYY is another random sequence of characters. This folder is owned by the currently logged-in user, and has permissions 0700! YMMV, but this, and the parent directories, may be worth investigating.
2. You may already know this, but just in case (or for anyone else who reads this), 0777 is the wrong permissions for tmp-like directories. The correct permissions is 01777, or drwxrwxrwt. The difference (the '1' in the 512-place) is the "sticky bit" and partially overrides the write-permissions to prevent users from deleting files that they don't own. This is a useful security measure: otherwise, say, an attacker could potentially attempt to exploit a race condition, and replace the temporary file which grops creates with a different file, before grops gets around to reading the temporary file which it created. (On the other hand, with the sticky bit set, a different security issue is created, namely, if the 'XXXXXX' part of the gropsXXXXXX filename is predictable--e.g. the PID of the grops process--then an attacker could try to create the gropsXXXXXX before grops gets a chance to, thereby effecting a DOS attack.) I would be surprised if the incorrect permissions would be an issue for you--why would groff/grops check the sticky bit on the temporary directory?--but it is still worth fixing, if necessary.

How can I file at last location rather than location of current file?

I have Abobe Reader X. In the old Adobe, when I saved a file, it took me to the last folder I was in, not the location of the current file. Thus far, I have not been able to find out how to get Adobe Reader X to do this. I even asked work help desk for help and their solution to unclick 'Automatically save document changes to temp file' worked once.
Is it possible? This is what I want.
Example:
I open file that is saved at Y:Scanned Files and save it at
X:Dogs/Breeds/Hounds/Sighthounds/Basenjis. I open the next file that is at Y:Scanned Files and click on File:Save As/PDF and window opens to save at Y:Scanned Files rather than at X:Dogs/Breeds/Hounds/Sighthounds/Basenjis, where I just was. I want to save file at X:Dogs/Breeds/Hounds/Sighthounds/Afghans so instead of just one click, I now have to go through six. Now imagine you have 30 or 40 documents you have to save. That's minimum 180 clicks versus 30. A big difference. And if you multiply it further by daily and weekly, it's a lot.
How can I get Adobe Reader X to open the 'save as' window at the last location rather than the current file's address? I also have Adobe Acrobat, but can't figure out how to get it work in that either.
I do not like Adobe Reader X. Unfortunately, it got downloaded automatically at work.
Another complaint I have is when I have Adobe Acrobat open and I click on a pdf to open, rather than open in Adobe Acrobat, it opens in Adobe Reader X (which was not the case with the previous Reader). If I want to open a doc in Acrobat, I have to go to Acrobat and File/Open, which is a pain.
Another complaint is, why do you have 'save as' and then 'pdf' or 'text'? This is another time consuming click I have to make. Add it to the 180 I'm already making above and you can see why I'm extremely unhappy and frustated with this version of Adobe.
Please let me know if the above is feasible or not and if it is, how to do it. If it isn't feasible, please make the above adjustments to Reader Y and put it out pronto. Thank you.

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Temp File Name Schema in Receiver File adapter

Hi,
I have a scenario where i have to write the file in the temperaory location before writing it to the FTP loacation, I have selected the Processing Parameter as "Use Temperory File" but when the file gets created it is padded with the Message Id, is thr any option to get the file name as the temp file name without the Message Id or timestamp.
Please let me know if any one has come across such scenario.
thankx,
shree

Hi,
Under Write Mode, specify whether the target file is to be written directly in the specified directory. If an additional step is to be added using a temporary file, choose Use Temporary File.
You can specify a naming scheme for the temporary file under Temporary File Name Scheme.
This schema is used to determine the prefix and extension of the temporary file; to ensure a unique file name, a time stamp is also added to the name during processing.
The schema xitemp.tmp, for example, results in the file name xitemp<timestamp>.tmp
So you have to customise the file name in schema.
see below link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/bc/bb79d6061007419a081e58cbeaaf28/content.htm
Regards
Chilla

CS6 temp file blunder - can you repeat this problem?

There is a serious root problem with Adobe's implemented permissionless-temp-file creation methods (pun intended.) The problem is that during startup, both Bridge and Photoshop CS6 try to make temp files on the root folder of the OS drive. Its affecting many peoples' installations by crashing them on application launch if not run by the super-administrator account on the computer. Adobe says to just run as admin to fix it, which does fix the start up crash. However, for me, it creates a gigantic problem: it breaks OS-to-PS and OS-to-Bridge drag and drop functionality completely!!! I literally was slowed to a crawl in my workflow having to import photos 1 at a time through the file-> open menu because I couldn't drag and drop various files from various locations on my computer. Not everything is clumped in 1 area neatly for Bridge to open everything, and I never realized just how much I used this function until this run as admin band-aid broke it. Eventually I fixed the CS temp location after 10-12 hours of hair pulling research and trial and error, and I finally have Photoshop CS6 working without admin permissions and everything is dandy with drag and drop, but only in PS. Bridge still cannot be run without administrator privileges and cannot have files dropped in or out of it to or from Explorer, and I am getting really frustrated here.
Its kind of disheartening that I have to work for 10 hours in order for me to be able to pay and fully utilize Adobe's software. Even 3 months after being made aware of this issue in other forums, and for how many people it is affecting, they still don't fix it when all they need to do is move the default location of the temp file to somewhere without a need for admin permissions! (I.E. documents folder?)
So does anyone else find their drag and drop ability gone once running Bridge/PS CS6 in admin mode? Am I the only one? Is there a way to move the default temp creation location of Bridge as well? I'm frustrated and I think Adobe seems to be taking this permissions issue way too lightly!

I'm running Windows 7x64 Professional. Temp is actually on my RAMdisk but using a folder junction to trick the programs into thinking its on the default temp folders of the C drive. Disabling UAC will fix it yes, but I don't want to disable UAC as I travel with this computer and security is something I prefer to have with me. Its only set to minimal UAC as well, but still its nice for spotting some things. And now, I really am going to look stupid here, but some reason now I can run Bridge without admin permissions without crashing, but now I can't preview or play .mp4 files which was a problem I had before!!! So, now I have a big WTF? expression on my face right now since I've been meticulously trying to get Bridge to work with drag and drop for over a week (and I guess now it magically does once someone actually pays attention to my posts lol) but now .mp4 functionality is poof without admin rights, no matter where the files reside. I think I give up on Bridge I'll just run it as admin but sheesh...
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But, I still can post references... these all have a problem with 'MMXCore.8BX_unloaded' on startup (there are more elsewhere but it takes time to find them all):
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/bridge_cs6_release_crashes_on_startu p
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1001298
http://www.sjogrens.nu/?p=106
Junction points are mentioned in the second post, and that's what I have done on my system (I did it with a program not command prompt, though)
Really though, after all I've read through and tried, changing the default location of where Photoshop and Bridge intitially put their TMP files to a permission-lax folder would really fix all the problems with this, even if it is caused by changing the default temp area, it would solve the issue for everyone that does do it. A user's documents folder would work perfectly. Sorry if I'm a little inconsistent with information I'm tired and just about burnt out on this stuff (including a lack of sleep)

Adobe Reader leaving temp files, which are not auto-deleting.

Adobe reader is leaving temp files all over and I can't delete them. The temp files are left in my "My Documents" folder, which is redirected to the server. Anytime I open a PDF, it leaves a temp file (ie:U17F7.tmp) and it does not auto-delete. The temp files are 0 bytes in size, just really annoying when my folders get cluttered with all these temp files. I also cannot delete the files, because it says the location is incorrect. I am able to delete the temp files when I'm not connected to the company network. How do I get these temp files to remove themselves once I close out of Adobe Reader? This is driving me crazy!

Hi burdurboy05
What is the version of reader that you're using?
Are you trying to print files ?
Did you try to uninstall and re-install the product?
~Mandy

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