temp folder with gigabytes of data and slow login
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:27 am
We have the autorecovery disabled in solidworks, but the file backup enable and set to 3 copies to be kept for 3 days. Honestly I have never used the backup, but I am not too fond to disable it completely.
Ar least until today, when I saw one of our user with a decent workstation taking up to 4 minutes for a login (active directory user).
I looked up stackoverflow and serverfault etc and the issue seems related to a huge user profile.
my user run DAILY the disk cleanup utility including all temporary files, but when I looked inside its %temp% folder (the one under %userprofile%\appdata\local\temp) and it was full of folders named swx*something* cleary SW related. in the end the temp folder was bloated with around 30GB of temp files.
CTRL+A and SHIFT+delete removed all the content non locked by an active process. reboot and the login took 30seconds instead of 4 minutes.
I do not know yet if it is a coincidence or not, but I am going to experiment with oher pcs with a similar issue.
I am not completely sure is a exclusive SW problem as well, but i won't be surprised if SW just forget the deletion of temporary files or backup data. but 30GB are quite big.
Ar least until today, when I saw one of our user with a decent workstation taking up to 4 minutes for a login (active directory user).
I looked up stackoverflow and serverfault etc and the issue seems related to a huge user profile.
my user run DAILY the disk cleanup utility including all temporary files, but when I looked inside its %temp% folder (the one under %userprofile%\appdata\local\temp) and it was full of folders named swx*something* cleary SW related. in the end the temp folder was bloated with around 30GB of temp files.
CTRL+A and SHIFT+delete removed all the content non locked by an active process. reboot and the login took 30seconds instead of 4 minutes.
I do not know yet if it is a coincidence or not, but I am going to experiment with oher pcs with a similar issue.
I am not completely sure is a exclusive SW problem as well, but i won't be surprised if SW just forget the deletion of temporary files or backup data. but 30GB are quite big.