Delete invisible tmp files

Log out and back in or Restart. That'll do the job for you,

that means that it's not a swap file. Those can be quite large but are deleted on restarts. I don't know what those files are but I would urge you not to delete them unless you have a definitive advice from an expert that it's ok to do so.
Those system files are hidden for a reason and deleting even a single one can render your entire system inoperable.

do they have quicktime extensions? if not they very easily might not be quicktime. sometimes if a system doesn't know what to do with a file it gets misassociated with a wrong program.

Egor46 wrote:
Can I delete the swapfiles sitting in private/var/vm then?

no, don't delete them by hand either. if they get too big, restart and they'll be reduced to a very small size.

Files in /tmp are disposable garbage that should get unlinked automatically. That's why the directory is named "tmp."

If the files are lingering then the developer of the application you're using probably isn't the sharpest tack.

1. Follow what orangekay told you (i.e. you can happily trash the contents of /var/tmp) and in addition contact the developer and suggest that he sees to it in the next release. Temporary garbage should be trashed when the app quits.

2. Follow what baltwo told you to get rid of excess swapfiles in /var/vm. Do NOT touch those by hand. After a reboot you will have only a 64MB swapfile0.

That's perfectly normal, leave them alone. The mds folder belongs to Spotlight and the launchd folder belongs to the system.
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