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Michele Cotrufo
Michele Cotrufo

Reputation: 75

How to prevent spyder from creating temp files in the same directory of the file I save

I installed spyder with pip (not with anaconda). Whenever I save a .py file, spyder also generates a temp file containing a copy of the file source, in the same directory. Something like this

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where each file starting with "tmp" contains the source of a different version of main.py. In the past, when I installed spyder with Anaconda, this never occurred.

Is there a way to deactivate this feature? Or at least to force spyder to save these temp files somewhere else?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2752

Answers (1)

Ewan
Ewan

Reputation: 54

Not sure if you are still troubled by this issue. Are you using Dropbox or some similar services?

I've met the same problem as you did, and I found the reason on Github, see #13041.

If you can try to work outside Dropbox, you don't see any tmp files. This works for me and hope it can help you.

Upvotes: 3

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