Is it normal for ImageConversionService to be creating and deleting files by itself?

kxxgvn wrote:

After typing in the command to see what the com.apple.photos.ImageConversionService process was working on, because it was taking up quite a large amount of the CPU usage, I was taken to the folder in finder and saw new files/folders being created and then deleted a second later, continuously.

This is the command:

open $TMPDIR/com.apple.photos.ImageConversionService

It may help to note, that I recently imported a large amount of photos from my phone into the photos app, so if it is that, it makes sense, but just curious.

The same goes for the VTDecoderXPCService process, not sure if this is related to the first one

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