How to remove .temp files?

You don't want to go deleting anything just because.

All images are including program images and OS X images too.

If you want to delete the contents of your caches, (programs, OS X and internet) two programs like Ccleaner for OS X and OnyX for OS X will go about doing that.

Some have more ability, like OnyX does a deeper cleaning of OS X than Ccleaner which is more user/programs.

If you find a particular offensive image or file wasn't deleted, and you need it gone, then take the name down and use the free Easy Find for OS X to search for it and delete it with extereme prejudice.

Hopefully the offending image isn't in System or root user, normally this isn't the case and you don't want to be deleting anything in OS X or root user level.

Most of that should be self limiting anyway. Safari caches a lot of images and other stuff to make reloads of pages faster, but it should be limited by max. size. The system itself also makes some temp files and cache files, but again, should clean up afterself as things open/close, or you log in and out or restart the machine. Other apps like Office will make temp files that may be highly important if related to autorecovery of files or backups and such.

It is not advisable to just start deleting things unless you know precisely what you are deleting and that it is not harmful to do so.

We have no way of knowing what you deleted. With luck they were nothing more than browser cache files, and the only effect will be that pages displaying those images will load a litle more slowly the next time you visit them. After that they'll be cached again.

Ccleaner and OnyX (both free) will clean the appropriate Internet, OS X and program caches so you don't have too.

http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner

http://www.titanium.free.fr/

If afterwards you still find any leftover images then you revert to using Easy Find and delete manually, but they should be already gone using the two programs above.

http://www.devontechnologies.com/download/products.html

There is no reason to be haing to go through 7000 images to delete them if most of them are simply cache files.

There is no reason to be haing to go through 7000 images to delete them if most of them are simply cache files.

In fact there is no reason to delete them at all, even with tools that make it easy (often too easy). In all likelihood your hard drive contains between half a million and a million files, and deleting 7000tiny cache files will have no perceptible effect on anything.

eww wrote:

...and deleting 7000tiny cache files will have no perceptible effect on anything.

It could depending upon others perception of one if they should so see those images. 😝

Remember eww, something like 1/10 of internet traffic is adult content related, in fact 2 out of 10 of the largest trafficed web sites online are adult related.

Performance wise deleting the caches does assist in a minor fashion, but I suspect this case is more about privacy and perception than performance.

Doing OnyX all maintainance and cleaning aspects and rebooting at the end, followed by all of Ccleaners program and internet cache cleaning should cut out nearly 100% of the offending images, I don't find anything outside of normal in my "show all images", only my iPhoto, desktop and program/OS X images.

Safari has a built in cache cleaner (not sure how well it works), and Firefox has the Click&Clean add-on that does a excellent job of cleaning Firefoxe's internet cache files.

priyank1 wrote:

yeah I have already started downloading OnyX for OS X. I was just worried about thse 1000 files I deleted but i guess they were just browser caches. Thanks Mate for the guidance.

If any program acts wonky because you deleted some file it needs, just reinstall it.

No, it certainly isn't. Because if you get rid of everything that doesn't look good as a tiny icon in the All Images list, here's what will happen: you'll demolish your iPhoto Library beyond repair, lose all your treasured photos, erase the samples and illustrations from all the tutorials for your installed applications, and generally lay waste all the graphics-dependent and graphics-management software on your computer. A much better thing to do is turn off the useless All Images search button in the Sidebar tab of Finder Preferences, because what good can it possibly do you to see such a list? For that matter, turn off the All Documents and All Movies searches too. Those lists are far too long to scroll through. Any file you may ever want to find can be found far more efficiently in many other ways. And if you never use that search, you'll never be tempted to rashly dispose of what may be thousands of important files merely because they "don't look good" as tiny icons.

Every web browser offers a one-click option to clear its cache. No third-party utility is needed to do that.

eww wrote:

Every web browser offers a one-click option to clear its cache. No third-party utility is needed to do that.

Yes but there are program and OS X cache files too, and they don't have a cache cleaner.

I've had the unfortunate pleasure of alerting a co-worker who placed the head of the CEO onto a cockroaches body because they didn't know about program's cache files.

So yes one should use the web browsers cache cleaning first, then followed by a multi-utility that may pick up where a browser maker decides to leave off (like Apple has been known to do trying to be so helpful), plug-in caches cleaner (like Flash's LSO's and Silverlight cookies) and catch any program or OS X caches in the process.

Click&Clean, BetterPrivacy and Ghostery for Firefox each have some measure of deleting plug-in cookies/cache files.

Of course nothing is truly scrubbed from the hard drive until Disk Utility > Erase Free Space with 0x-7x is used. 7x in the case of spy stuff or else 0x can be recovered with expensive technology.