hey guys welcome back to Wondershare Recoverit a data backup and recovery tool for mac and windows
that works for over a thousand file formats with a whopping 95 recovery rate today's video
is about how to recover deleted temporary files on a computer now temporary files in
windows can be an absolute blessing in the events of a system malfunctioning
when you're in the middle of working on something crucial but this is where it gets tricky if you
accidentally delete temporary files then you do potentially stand to lose a lot of precious work
so in this video I'm going to talk about how you can recover deleted temporary files on your
computer but before that let's talk about what tmp files actually mean also if you're new here don't
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temp files are identified by tmp file extensions and in windows they're provided
to help you recover unsaved changes in applications such as excel or word and
many others they basically contain any unsaved changes or edits that you've made to a file
now if you're wondering why they're called temp files don't worry i've got you covered
every time you make a change to a document that change is stored as a temp file when you save a
document as a completed file then all of the temporary files get deleted so let's say that
you're working on an important presentation for your office and then halfway through the software
crashes or your system shuts down before you've had a chance to save the file yourself it will
still be stored on your computer as a temporary file now where can you find these temp files
well there's two locations where they're stored either system drive slash windows slash temp or
user profile slash app data slash local slash temp if you open your c drive and in your windows
folder click on the temp folder you will find that most of the contents within there are either dot
tmp.temp or dot text file extensions and this is where the windows operating system saves its own
temporary files whereas the other location is where the temporary files of the user are saved
such as unsaved documents and presentations now that's what temporary files are let's move
ahead and talk about the process of finding and deleting temporary files from your windows system
temporary files sure are a blessing but at times they can occupy a lot of space
and that space could be potentially better used for saving important documents or other files
so if you're looking at how to delete them this is what you need to do firstly open the dialog
box on your pc by clicking the windows and r buttons at the same time then type in the
following command in that dialog box percentage sign temp percentage sign and press enter when
you're in the folder that contains all of the temporary files you can then select them all by
pressing the control and a key once you're sure that all of your important files have been saved
you can then delete the temporary files just in case windows hasn't already cleared them for you
so earlier I mentioned how important temp files can be and if you accidentally delete them
recovering them can be a huge task good thing is i have the perfect solution for you and I'm talking
about none other than Wondershare Recoverit so here is a step-by-step guide how you can recover
deleted temporary files on your computer using recover it firstly download and open recover it
onto your pc then select the location from where you lost the temporary files which will usually be
your c drive in windows then wondershare recovery will automatically begin a scan looking for lost
files within that section which includes all temporary files once you see the temp files
that you're looking for you can preview it to make sure that it is the correct file and then click on
the recover button and recover it will restore it to the same location from where the file was lost
so that is how you can recover deleted temporary files now that you have your lost temp files back
here are a few tips that you can use to avoid this issue in the future the first way to avoid
the problem moving forward is simply to make sure you keep saving your files every couple of minutes
this will make sure that all of your important documents are saved as completed files on your pc
so even if the system crash or malfunction happens you don't need to rely on the temporary files
also keep checking your temporary files every now and again to make sure there's no important
unsaved changes in there and then you can delete them once that you're sure the important files
have been saved and starting from windows 10 a new feature has been introduced called storage
sense now this smartly manages your storage to make sure that you never run out of space
and it means the system can automatically delete your temporary files in case you are
running out of storage so go to settings and search for storage sense then open
it and navigate to the temporary file section and choose never from the two drop-down boxes
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