Are the .SV$ and .Ac$ files safe to delete?

[The Mad Cadder]

Hopefully, I did not post this to the wrong forum...

 

I was looking in my temp folder and found a lot of .ac$ and .sv$ files in there. I've heard if you empty out your Temp folder, it will increase the performance of your computer.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

TMC

[JD Mather]

Yes they are save to delete.

Also search for *.bak files.

[CyberAngel]

A caveat--if you think you might have to go back to a previous version, and you don't always keep your revisions in strict order, leave the .BAK files there until you're sure you don't need them. Also, sometimes I need to check that folder for the projects I worked on at a particular time, in case I'm too busy to write down every single task for my time sheet. As a rule of thumb, I leave them there for six months.

[The Mad Cadder]

Thanks for the info guys.

[rkmcswain]

I would say keep your recent .SV$ files also.

How you define recent is up to you, but as with the .BAK files that CyberAngel discussed above, you may just find out you need a backup of something one day.

 

If you search around, there are BAT files that you can set up on a schedule to clean out your %temp% directory, saving anything "X" number of days old or newer.

This might be a good option.

Note that .SV$ files have their own .BAK files that are stored in the %temp% directory. Under normal circumstances, BAK files for drawings you are working on are stored in the same location as the DWG.