Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I discard temp/.tmp directories?

amaloney wrote:
> In my user directory the temp directory contains 139 directories labelled
> •luNNxxxxxx.tmp•
> 1) Why do these exist?

They're temporary files created while you're working on documents. 
Although the files within those directories have a .tmp extension, they 
are actually OpenDocument files. If you're interested, you can open them 
using LibreOffice. They're usually deleted when LibreOffice exits, but 
can get left behind if it or the operating system crashes.

>   2)What happens if I discard them?

If you don't need those temporary copies of the files, you can safely 
delete them. I sometimes open them to check what's there before deleting 
them, but have never come across anything I've needed to keep.

--
Mark.


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