Appdata>Local>Temp Folder : safe to Delete contents?

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Been doing a bit of housekeeping as my wee 36Gb Raptor was getting a bit full. Ran disc cleanup and deleted all but the most recent System Restore point.

However upon looking in my C/Users/Myusername/Appdata/Local/Temp folder I find it has over 700mb of temp files within.

Is it ok to just delete them all from the folder?. No ill effects etc?. I'm guessing it is called a "Temp" file for a reason. :p

Thanks. :cool:
 
Nuke it!

700mb? Sounds like Office setup files or somesuch. Although Disk Cleanup should probably have given you the option to get rid of those.

But, yes. It is a temp folder so anything in there won't be anything worth keeping.
 
Mostly, there will be files in that folder currently being used by the operating system, and you'll only know which ones by trying to delete them. The rest of the files should be ok to delete.

If your worried that deleting them may break something you could always leave them in the recycle bin ready to restore if something goes wrong, which it shouldn't.
 
Don't forget that CCleaner will only delete temp files more than 24 hours old, unless you go into Options > Advanced and uncheck the relevant box.

I suppose this implies there's potentially some downside in deleting temporary files immediately, although I've never experienced anything untoward...
 
sometimes they're referenced after a program installation reboot, often to include uninstall information, O&O Defrag 8 did this

if you cleaned the temp folder too early (before rebooting or running the program) the uninstall would be screwy/missing
 
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