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How do files in ...\AppData\Local\Temp get deleted?
I am debugging an problem with an application which uses ...\AppData\Local\Temp to store its temporary files.
My questions are:
Q1 Does W7 ever automatically delete files from this folder?
Q2 Is each application supposed to delete the files it creates?
Q3 If Q2 is YES, are their known cases where a badly written application goes delete ...\AppData\Local\Temp\*.*? That would cause my problem as it would delete my temporary files.
I ask because the symptom of the problem I am debugging is that the application's temporary files in ...\AppData\Local\Temp suddenly get deleted which causes the application to lose data.
Note that the files being deleted are not "held open by the application" so there is no protection from their being deleted by another program. Also I know that cleaning programs can be scheduled to clean ...\AppData\Local\Temp but I am ignoring that for the moment - I want to know what W7 does.
Thanks