iTunes Temp Data?

Hypernate

Hypernate

McGeek
In my Music folder, I have about 100 iTunes temporary files along with my iTunes data file. Can I just erase these, or would that screw up my libraries? I realise that deleting the Library Data file would, but what's with all these temp files?
 
If those temporary files persist after you've quit iTunes, it's usually safe to remove them. This applies to just about any sort of temp file. Good applications will store their temp files in /tmp, which the OS flushes every restart.
 
I had the same issue a long time ago, and someone told me that it was because of NAV doing something to the primary temp file necessitating the creation of all these other ones.

The guy also told me to retain the iTunes Temp x where x was the highest number.

I don't know about that though, I can't imagine what they'd need to hold, everything's kept in "iTunes Music Library.xml" as far as I can see....

Let us know if iTunes makes your computer catch fire after you delete them all :)

PS Anarchie, intersting that you'd say "good applications store their temp files in /tmp"; or rather, it's more interesting that Apple's app doesn't!
 
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