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Can you safely delete temporary files?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Often temporary files does not make any critical harm when deleted. But many programs create temporary files while a project is open etc. It's not allways safe to delete all temporary files. When deleting anything in a operating system you should be sure you know what you are doing.

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