Hundreds of TMP files in workspace

McNepp02

Hi, when I'm working with QtCreator (running on Windows) on a medium-sized project, my workspace starts filling with hundreds of files following this pattern:
"mysource.cpp~RF1ebbd4ea.TMP"

Closing QtCreator removes some, but never all of them!

If this can't be avoided, is there a way to specify a different location for these files?

cristian-adam

Looks like https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-29942

I assume you are using clangd from Qt Creator, right?

At https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-24911 we get a link to https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41442542#comment22

which points to the fact that Windows is responsible for creating these files and not removing them. 🤯

Would be interesting to know more details about the Windows machine. Which antivirus is running in background and so forth.

McNepp02

@cristian-adam Yes, the clang-plugin is active.
OS is Windows 10 64-bit, antivirus software is Sentinel One.

mashuo

So, how to solve this problem?

cristian-adam

@mashuo said in Hundreds of TMP files in workspace:

So, how to solve this problem?

Since this is a Windows problem that is not easy to reproduce, I can think of:

disable antivirus
usage of a Dev Drive
using WSL2 with Linux to cross compile for Windows either using MinGW or msvc-wine
using a different operating system than Windows (Linux or macOS)