What are Temporary Files
Temporary files are usually generated by software for one of two reasons; either as a backup file or as a cache. In the case of cache files these can be generated automatically by programs that run out of memory space to allocate for tasks.
Most of the time .TMP files just contain indecipherable gibberish only usable by the application that created them. Temporary files are often be deleted by the program that generated them, however sometimes, due to a software crash or poor software design the file extension TMP files aren’t removed and, potentially can take up a substantial amount of room on your hard disk.
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