Tons of .tmp files in iTunes folder

I had a problem maybe related to this. I noticed in Spotlight that iTunes was creating many .tmp files, all invisible and almost 0kb. I couldn't even reveal them so they were either not really there or it was something Finder could not handle. I noticed, however, that they were not being created if I used iTunes in a different account. In the end I made a new account for myself on this computer and transferred all my files to it.

Quit iTunes and you can safely delete all .tmp files in the iTunes folder.

iTunes continually updates the iTunes library.itl file and it uses a .tmp file, which should get automatically deleted, usually immediately, before you can even see it.

However, on ocassion, something happens and the .tmp file(s) do not get deleted.

Tag Simler: The .tmp files should only be that - tmp and under normal situations you should not have these files hanging around. The cause could be an obscure one that a few of us had with larger libraries after upgrading to Lion - where it was also causing a permission problem when trying to open iTunes. It also created tons of these tmp files. Anyway, we found the solution by disabling the 'local snapshot' feature of Time Machine via the terminal command"

sudo tmutil disablelocal

You can find the orginal thread here which is summarized as to the cause and solution at toward the end: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401007?answerId=17692965022#17692965022.

So if you are running Lion you may want to give this a try, Btw, it is no problem to delete these .tmp files.

Hi,

I currently am not using TimeMachine, as only just got my MBA and currently building my iTunes library for the first time. Will be setting it up soon enough though...

I'm still getting .tmp files more or less every time I play a track, but I can delete them. I didn't notice these until today and there were 450 of them weighing in at 10.83 MB / file.

Do youhave any non Time Machine related recomendations that I could try?

Seems like a Lion / iTunes bug that needs fixing?

Thanks,

Lex

Quit iTunes and run Disk First Aid on the drive.

Thanks Chris CA, that seems to have solved my problem. Don't think I formatted when I got it, so just backed it up, formatted and hasn't done it since. .tmp files dissapear now

Thank-you

Thanks Chris. This worked and solved the problem