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Q: C:\TempPath directory is growing too large. What is it and how do I stop it? I've been searching for an answer the past few weeks but I can't figure out where these files are coming from.  On the server that hosts our SP sites and services, there is a directory called C:\TempPath.  When I first stumbled upon this, it had over 6m+ files in it.  After removing the directory, it quickly reappeared and has grown to over 16k+ files now.  Every single file is a GUID (i.e. "95007211-da72-4a64-b7a6-bcca3ae8adc5") without a file extension.  There is a single file in this directory called startTime.txt which simply contains a time stamp of when the directory was recreated.
Every time I add, update, or delete a document in SharePoint, a new file appears in this directory with these details.
Here is what the files all look like:
<FILETAG>SPAudit0</FILETAG>
<OPT>MetaData Updated</OPT>
<NAME>MyFile.pdf</NAME>
<LOCATION>https://FQDN.com/MySiteName/Documents/MyFilePath/MyFile.pdf</LOCATION>
<PERMNAME>null</PERMNAME>
<UNAME>null</UNAME>
<GNAME>null</GNAME>
<WHO>John Doe</WHO>
<WHEN>2019/5/16 09:05:18</WHEN>
<SNAME>MySiteName</SNAME>
<OBJTYPE>Document</OBJTYPE>
<SURL>https://FQDN.com/MySiteName</SURL>
<DETAILS>[Comments] MetaData Updated 
<SLASH_R>
<SLASH_N> From: **Prior Value**
<SLASH_R>
<SLASH_N> To: **New Value**
</DETAILS>
<AURL>null</AURL>
Can anybody identify what this is?  I've checked the gatherer and diagnostic service file paths (both of which are stored on a secondary drive (E:)), I've searched the registry for this file path, and I've gone through every piece of configuration I know of.  My best guess is that this is something not well known or well hidden from documentation.
Hopefully the file contents will look familiar to someone else.

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I found 102 "a"s in the provided passage.
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