Proliferation of unknown files in QtCreator 4.8.1

[drmhkelley]

Every time I run a program (or so it seems) in Qt Creator, I get another empty file in the project directory named something like

usersownerappdatalocaltemptmp1zhzyg

Any clue where they come from, what they are for, and why they aren't in the apparent/proper temporary file location?

This didn't happen before I installed 4.8.1 some weeks back.

[aha_1980]

Hi @drmhkelley,

• on which platform are you?
• which build system do you use?
• do you use shadow-builds?

Regards

[drmhkelley]

@aha_1980 I'll try to provide this information.

First, I noticed that the two such files get created each time I start the debug mode in Qt Create - none if I run without the debugger.

Platform: Windows 10
Build System: (not certain what you mean) Use qmake to generate the relevant Makefiles, mingw32-make to process the Makefiles, then MinGQ-w64 for compilation and linking and debugging. Specifically, compile and link with a version of Gnu C++ (MinGW-w64\x86_64-7.2.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin\g++) and the corresponding Gnu debugger (MinGW-w64\x86_64-7.2.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin\gdb).

Shadow-builds: don't know what this is so likely don't use it.