how can i make my script run at the system startup ?? do i need to modify the autoexec.bat ??

Anonymous User 1/5/2005 2:12:39 PM

Thanks to the above anonymous commenter; I had the same problem with the excessively large ~PSTxxxx.tmp files, and couldn't find specific information on whether to delete them or not. (Consequently, they take up over 2GB on my hard drive)
Thanks for your explanation & solution.

Anonymous User 12/13/2004 4:18:58 PM

When working with an image, Photoshop creates a temporary file on your hard drive. When you exit the program, Photoshop usually cleans up these temp files. But if Photoshop (...or more likely Windows) crashes, these files might get left on your disk. These files can be quite large, especially if you work at high resolution. And if you've never searched for them, they could be accumulating and taking up your disk space.

To delete them from Windows 95, exit Photoshop and all programs, then search your C: drive (either through Windows Explorer or Find Files from the Start menu) for *.tmp files. Photoshop temp files are typically named something like ~PSTxxxx.tmp, where xxxx is a series of numbers. Delete any ~PSTxxxx.tmp files. You may find other files with .tmp extensions, and in most cases it's okay to delete these too (as long as they're not currently in use by another application - check their date and time to be sure they're old files), but you may want to check with the developers of that software first to be sure.
From http://www.users.nac.net/jmp/pho_dc06.html

Anonymous User 11/14/2004 11:04:32 AM

I was lead to your article on scripts by another article at http://hardwarehell.com/articles/addendum.shtml ... I am trying to find out whether I can delete files (any or all) in the following directory on my machine C:\\Documents and Settings\\MyUserNameHere\\Local Settings\\Temp I have some HUGE files in this directory named ~PST????.tmp (e.g. ~PST1084.tmp) What are these? Can I get rid of them? The article at hardwarehell.com suggested deleting c:\\docume~1\\yourusername\\temp but there is no such directory... Temp is one more directory level down under the "Local Settings" directory...

Steve Ford 12/2/2003 7:06:54 AM