Can I discard temp/.tmp directories?

users
#1

In my user directory the temp directory contains 139 directories labelled
•luNNxxxxxx.tmp•
1) Why do these exist?
2)What happens if I discard them?

[asked on askLO but no response there]

#2

As far as LibO is concerned, that can be deleted at any time, with
little to no ill-effects.

Depending upon your OS, deleting them might cause undesirable side-effects.

jonathon

#3

I'm sorry that I was not clear enough in my original post.
Those directories are at ~/Library/Application
Support/LibreOffice/4/user/temp

For some reason they are retained.

#4

amaloney wrote:

In my user directory the temp directory contains 139 directories labelled
•luNNxxxxxx.tmp•
1) Why do these exist?

They're temporary files created while you're working on documents. Although the files within those directories have a .tmp extension, they are actually OpenDocument files. If you're interested, you can open them using LibreOffice. They're usually deleted when LibreOffice exits, but can get left behind if it or the operating system crashes.

  2)What happens if I discard them?

If you don't need those temporary copies of the files, you can safely delete them. I sometimes open them to check what's there before deleting them, but have never come across anything I've needed to keep.

#5

Thanks to everybody.
My questions have been answered.

Al Maloney