What are temporary files and what are they for?

One of the most interesting functions that the OS is to create the famous Temporary files, which could well save our lives with some documents or jobs on a few occasions.

The first thing in this regard is to be able to recognize what your characteristicsBeing files that are created by programs or the operating system itself, as mentioned above, these tend to have an expiration period, as their name may indicate after which they are automatically deleted from the computer.

Temporary files are especially useful when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, such is the case with video editing programs.

Now let's go on to recognize which are the positive points temporary files. Imagine that you are working with a document and in the middle of it a technical imperfect occurs that would make you practically lose it, luckily there is a temporary file created that will serve as a basis for you not to lose all the information, being considerable as something similar to a copy.

El problem with temporary files created by some programs is that over time they are not usually erased on their own, taking up space within a hard drive, which is why it is worth knowing where they are to perform this work manually.

Finally, we can say that there are some programs that create temporary files and then do not delete them. In Microsoft Windows, the temporary files left by the programs accumulate over time and can take up a large amount of disk space, which is why it is advisable to delete them from time to time.


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