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temporary folder wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 practical issues 2 traditional locations 3 see also 4 references toggle the table of contents temporary folder 3 languages 한국어 türkçe 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia directory for storing temporary data in a computer file system this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources temporary folder news newspapers books scholar jstor march 2022 learn how and when to remove this message in computing a temporary folder or temporary directory is a directory used to hold temporary files many operating systems and some software automatically delete the contents of this directory at bootup or at regular intervals leaving the directory itself intact for security reasons it is best for each user to have their own temporary directory since there has been a history of security vulnerabilities with temporary files due to programs incorrect file permissions or race conditions a standard procedure for system administration is to reduce the amount of storage space used typically on a disk drive by removing temporary files in multi user systems this can potentially remove active files disrupting users activities to avoid this some space reclaiming procedures remove only files which are inactive or old those which have not been read or modified in several days practical issues edit in unix like systems the tmp directory will often be a separate disk partition in systems with magnetic hard disk drives performance overall system iops will increase if disk head movements from regular disk i o are separated from the access to the temporary directory increasingly memory based solutions for the temporary directory or folder are being used such as ram disks set up in random access memory tmpfs file systems or the shared memory device dev shm in linux a flash based solid state drive is less suitable as a temporary storage device for reading and writing due to the asymmetric read write duration and due to wear see wear leveling traditional locations edit in ms dos and microsoft windows the temporary directory is set by the environment variable temp or tmp 1 using the windows api one can find the path to the temporary directory using the gettemppath2 function 2 or one can obtain a path to a uniquely named temporary file using the gettempfilename function 3 originally the default was c temp then windir temp in the windows xp era the temporary directory was set per user as local settings temp although still user relocatable for windows vista 7 8 and 10 the temp location has moved again to within the appdata section of the user profile typically c users user name appdata local temp userprofile appdata local temp in all versions of windows the temp location can be accessed for example in explorer run boxes and in an application s internal code by using tmp or temp as with other environmental variables tmp or temp is synonymous with the full path in unix like systems the global temporary directories are tmp and var tmp web browsers periodically write data to the tmp directory during page views and downloads typically var tmp is for persistent files as it may be preserved over reboots and tmp is for more temporary files see filesystem hierarchy standard 4 5 in addition a user can set their tmpdir environment variable to point to a preferred directory where the creation and modification of files is allowed macos provides user specific temporary directories and sets tmpdir to refer to that directory a sandboxed application cannot use the standard unix locations but may use that user specific directory the path is provided by the function nstemporarydirectory 6 in openvms sys scratch 7 and in amigados t are used see also edit temporary file temporary variable trash computing references edit recognized environment variables microsoft retrieved 13 march 2022 gettemppath2a function fileapi h microsoft retrieved 13 march 2022 gettempfilenamea function fileapi h microsoft retrieved 13 march 2022 temporary files preserved between system reboots filesystem hierarchy standard retrieved 8 march 2022 temporary files filesystem hierarchy standard retrieved 8 march 2022 app sandbox design guide apple retrieved 7 march 2022 vsi openvms user s manual pdf vms software inc p 244 retrieved 13 march 2022 v t e computer files types binary file text file data file file format list of file formats list of file signatures magic number open file formats proprietary file formats metafile sidecar file sparse file swap file system file temporary file zero byte file properties filename 8 3 filename long filename filename mangling filename extension lists of filename extensions file attribute extended file attributes file size hidden file and hidden directory organisation directory folder ntfs links temporary folder directory structure file system filesystem hierarchy standard grid file system semantic file system path operations open close read write linking file descriptor hard link shortcut alias shadow symbolic link management backup file comparison file copying data compression file manager comparison of file managers file system fragmentation file system permissions file transfer file sharing file synchronization file verification retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title temporary_folder oldid 1323553512 categories computer file systems file system directories hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata articles needing additional references from march 2022 all articles needing additional references this page was last edited on 22 november 2025 at 12 41 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents temporary folder 3 languages add topic