Windows temp file location.

Question

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Correct location to save a temporary file in Windows?

Where is a safe place to create tmp file on windows?

Answer 1

Use the GetTempPath API, or the equivalent in your programming environment (for .NET, that would be Path.GetTempPath).

Answer 2

In Win32, you use GetTempFileName, and in .NET, you use System.Io.Path.GetTempFileName.

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Answer 3

If you're not using a full-blown programming language, you should place temp files in the folder whose name is stored in the environment variable %TEMP% or %TMP%

Answer 4

What about the Temp directory? You can find its location in the %TEMP% environment variable or programmatically using the GetTempPath() function.

Answer 5

You can use %TMP% as a valid path that actually points to the users temp folder in windows.

Example (copy thefile.txt to the temp folder and rename to tmpfile.txt):

copy thefile.txt %TMP%\tmpfile.txt

To see where the actual location of the temp folder is, just run

echo %TMP%