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Need Help Extremely Large Files in Windows-Temp Folder Cannot Delete
Okay I will do my best to try and explain this clearly.
I had one laptop hard drive crash/fail on me...so I purchased a new laptop and transferred all my files over via a window's backup and crash plan backup to make sure I got everything. Now the new laptop is having the same issue as the old laptop--obviously there is a corrupt file somewhere. The hard drive on the new laptop has not failed--yet--but 308GB of my 750 HDD has been sucked up by these temp files. I have attached a word doc with 2 screen shots--first showing the main window with all of these tmp files and the second with one file opened.
There 99 of these tmp files, with roughly 200,000 items in each taking up a lot of HDD space. I tried to delete one of these folders and the process took forever and it got hung up.
First, what are these folders and has anyone heard of this kind of issue.
Secondly, is there a way I can delete these files by by-passing the recycle bin since these things are so large. I thought I read somewhere I could use cmd to do this, but am not sure how.
I've used CCleaner and Malwarebytes and neither touched these files. As a matter of fact the Windows\Temp file never seems to get cleared out unless I manually delete what's in there. I was able to delete other files in that folder, just not these. I am getting very concerned for the life expectancy of my new HDD.
Also, one final note. I ran a chckdsk scan. It got hung up at 74% on Stage 1 and refused to budge from there. I am going to assume this is because of these files. Also when I ran Malwarebytes it took 24 hours to get through just 6 of those tmp folders. I chose to stop the scan process and try to delete those folders...that's when I discovered they are very stubborn. When I right-click on the folders the system gets very slow and the folders become almost impossible to work with.
I am open to any and all suggestions...Thanks