parctmp.* files all over the place?

[melmitts707]

Since installing PA 2017 I have parctmp.* files (0 byte) files all over my hard drive. Is their a way to correct this?

[spwolf]

@melmitts707 said in parctmp.* files all over the place?:

Since installing PA 2017 I have parctmp.* files (0 byte) files all over my hard drive. Is their a way to correct this?

can you tell us when do they get created? It is likely during compression, what format do you use when they get created? I would think it is specific to certain format. Thank you!

[Mili]

in addition to spwolf’s question, does this occur in Windows Explorer or on additional explorer such as Total Commander? as we have had a similar report on Total Commander leaving such files when copying, and I am still working on reproducing it.

Thanks!

[Brian Gregory]

I often see these weird parctmp.* files in my temp directory (as specified in the PA configuration). Maybe melmitts707 is specifying a temp directory that no longer exists, or something like that.

[melmitts707]

The files occur when extracting files from both ZIP and RAR files while using Total Commander. They appear in the destination directory and the Windows Temp directory. I will have to check if it occurs with Windows Explorer. I do know I have been using Total Commander 9.0a and WinRAR 5.40 since they have been released and have never experienced the parctmp.* files until avter I installed PowerArchiver 2017.

[Mili]

that helps indeed, thanks very much for the details!
We have it logged in for fixing

[melmitts707]

Additional information. I uninstalled PowerArchiver and ran Total commander 9.0a and WinRAR 5.40 both x64 version. They ran without any problems. Their were no parctmp.* files left in any of the folders during compression or extraction of files.