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Why is there a Temp folder?

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Deathie:

--- Quote from: Sabb on July 31, 2012, 09:53:14 PM ---I am. Please explain.

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When you visit a site, everything is downloaded locally onto your hard drive within a temp folder which is deleted when your instance ends (ie; when you close your browser) or when you restart your computer.

RAM is used for information that needs to be processed too quickly for it to be stored on your hard drive. Generated files and information are used by the ram, and if your memory capacity is maxed out, it goes over to your virtual memory.

Sabb:

--- Quote from: Death M.D. on July 31, 2012, 10:15:31 PM ---When you visit a site, everything is downloaded locally onto your hard drive within a temp folder which is deleted when your instance ends (ie; when you close your browser) or when you restart your computer.

RAM is used for information that needs to be processed too quickly for it to be stored on your hard drive. Generated files and information are used by the ram, and if your memory capacity is maxed out, it goes over to your virtual memory.

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Well I didn't literally mean that it's physically downloaded on the RAM, just that it's used temporarily for videos and shit or w.e. I have never found folders on my computer that are downloaded from browser or anything like that temporarily though. Assuming that you're right, which you probably are, I guess they're just downloaded somewhere else in a folder with a different name? I would like to know where my 50 tabs are temporarily downloaded lol.

coolzeldad:
The concept of a temp folder is a temporary working directory.

This is used by the operating system and programs (individually or in the system one) to store data of temporary nature on the local disk (harddisk/ssd/etc) which is normally persistant media.

While these files are cleaned periodically on most systems, some can store for extended periods of time depending on application / operating system preferences.

And for you sabb, the tabs are probably cache'd in your browser's working directory, assuming chrome i think its C:\Users\WINDOWS USER NAME\AppData\Local\Chrome\User Data\Default

Sabb:

--- Quote from: coolzeldad on July 31, 2012, 11:40:35 PM ---The concept of a temp folder is a temporary working directory.

This is used by the operating system and programs (individually or in the system one) to store data of temporary nature on the local disk (harddisk/ssd/etc) which is normally persistant media.

While these files are cleaned periodically on most systems, some can store for extended periods of time depending on application / operating system preferences.

And for you sabb, the tabs are probably cache'd in your browser's working directory, assuming chrome i think its C:\Users\WINDOWS USER NAME\AppData\Local\Chrome\User Data\Default

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Oh alright I see.

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