CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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forloop
forloop

Reputation: 147

Can I safely delete files created by Visual Studio from external drive?

When I installed Visual Studio, it also placed hundreds of files on my external hard drive. And now the folder structure is full of "junk" that I don't want.

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Is it safe to delete these files? Will deleting these files affect my Visual Studio installation (which is on a different disk) at all? Why does VS do this anyway? Why does it place all this crap on a drive I never even gave it permission to put it on in the first place?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1417

Answers (4)

Aung Myo Linn
Aung Myo Linn

Reputation: 2890

Cause

These temporary files are erroneously generated by the installer into the root directory of one of your drives, instead of the temp directory.

Resolution

These files are unnecessary and can be safely deleted from the system. The functioning of the runtime library will not be affected by this. Its a known bug and is fixed in VS2008 SP1.

Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/950683

Upvotes: 1

JaB
JaB

Reputation: 471

You should be safe deleting those files. Someone already asked this question. :D

Visual Studio 9.0 Beta Program files in C:\

hope I was helpfull Jasper.

Upvotes: 1

Antoine Lefebvre
Antoine Lefebvre

Reputation: 376

What about archiving those files, opening visual studio and check it is still working? If it doesn't just put the files back where they were...

Upvotes: 1

ibanjo
ibanjo

Reputation: 343

You can safely delete any of those files, since, quoting Microsoft KB,

These temporary files are erroneously generated by the installer into the root directory of one of your drives, instead of the temp directory

Those are temporary files indeed and they, still quoting Microsoft,

are generated on the root directory of a drive that has the largest available space in the system

Check Microsoft knowledgebase pages like this for more detail.

Upvotes: 2

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