Preview and PDFs

For some reason my PDFs I make are being stored in a file called "tmp". The file seems to be an alias as it has the little arrow. If I forget to change where to save the PDF, it goes to this file. When I open that file, there is my PDF and even if I remembered to save it to the desktop, there is still a file in the tmp folder. When I open the tmp file there are some files that are empty. One said 501, one was 502 (that one is now gone).
Any ideas about what is happening? This just started happening.

Apparently you saved files into the tmp folder at some time in the past so that Preview is opening the folder as a default. You should not be saving any files into that folder, in fact the folder should not even be visible. I would not delete anything from that folder other than files you may have saved there yourself. If you have any PDF files still in the tmp folder you should move them to a location in your Home folder, such as your Documents folder.
Are there any other similar folder aliases visible besides tmp in that same location, such as etc, var? If so there's something you can do to fix the problem and make these folders invisible. This article explains the process for correcting the problem: Mac OS X 10.4- Invisible files become visible after NetInstall or restoring from a disk image.

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