Thousands of Temp files since iTunes Match activation
A week ago I bought iTunes Match.
Now, that iTunes got to the point that all of my songs were matched I got a system message popup, that my system disk was getting full.
I had more than 150GB of space the week before so I started looking for where it had been used for.
To my surprise I found more than 4000 temp files consuming more than 100GB of drive space in the iTunes directory, named like this:
Temp File 1.tmp
Temp File 2.tmp
...
Temp File 4652.tmp
They were all roughly the same size as the file:
iTunes Music Library.xml
And then there is another file of the "same" size:
Temp File.tmp
Whenever I play a song, add a song to my library, change a rating, or more general, whenever I do anything that leads to an update of the iTunes library a new version of the Temp File is created instead of updating the existing library.
This seems to be an iTunes bug to me. Is there anything I can do to workaround it without jeopardizing my library (it's backed up of course).
The problem started, exactly at the time when I bought iTunes Match and the matching of my library began.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and knows how to solve it?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
