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November 3, 2010
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Hi

For some reason a set of 16 temp files is created on my store drive (D:\) when i start up PS. its not the scratch drive. that is located on my ramdrive. these files are named "****_********_MVM_*.tmp" where the first and second line of stars is a random number while the last star is the numbers from 0 to 15. all the 16 files will be named the same but whith a different count at the end.

this is really bugging me since that disk is for storing ONLY (eco green crap 2tb drive), and it looks ugly to. anyway, all the temp files are at 0kb and i cant seem to find any way to 'fill them' so i have no idea what they are for.

what i want is to move them to a specific folder or at least another drive. A:\ in my case

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Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0 (12.0x20100407 [20100407.r.1103 2010/04/07:14:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64 (CS5 Extended)
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Built-in memory: 8183 MB
Free memory: 4488 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7183 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 55 %
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: A:\Temp\USERTE~1\
Scratch volume(s): A:\, 2,00G, 1,91G free (RAMDRIVE)

C drive 25gb free (ssd)

D drive 1,5tb free (store)

Windows

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Anonymous

There has been an ongoing discussion on this topic in the Bridge Forum for some time now. (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/679238?tstart=0). There have been no conclusions as to where they come from.

Since this threaed started I have seen the mmm temp files on at least 2 different drives. All 0 bytes. The appear in the root directory, even though this is not where the image files are stored. I just delete them when they show up.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Hm, is every user seeing these files running Windows 7? Notably I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with UAC turned off. Notably also I don't run Bridge.

The interesting thing is that, while I don't see any of these particular files, I *DO* see Photoshop spin up my external backup drive sometimes during application startup (I do not have this drive listed in the Edit - Preferences - Performance dialog).

The presence of these temporary files doesn't seem like any sort of problem.

-Noel

Noel Carboni

Legend

Do you play a racing game called "Man Vs Machine" by any chance?

*_MVM_*.tmp files are reported to be temporary profile files/ racing names for Man Vs Machine games

-Noel

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Snugyo

Participating Frequently

Hi,

no, I don't play any game, it's on my work machine. And those files ( ####_#########_MVM_##.tmp ) appear when I open one file in CS5 (not when I start the program), and disappear when I close CS5 (not only the file, but the main program).

It's really boring, I must mention I don't have this with CS4 64bits. It's really due to Photoshop CS5 64bits.

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Bruno

Noel Carboni

Legend

Boring or not, you should expect people to suggest things because it doesn't happen on every Photoshop CS5 64 bit system.

I just opened an image and no *_MVM_*.tmp file appeared on my system. So it's something that's different about your system.

-Noel

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Snugyo

Participating Frequently

Hello,

for some unknow reasons, I have the same problem.

On my system, I have two internal hard drives, which are scratch drives for photoshop CS5. I have 3 external hard drives.

Each time I open a file with CS5, it creates some .tmp files (same pattern than Psych0HoliC) on the 3 external drives.

I'm on Windows Seven 7 64bits and this happens only with the 64 bits version of Photoshop CS5. With the 32bits version I don't have this problem.

It's actually quite boring, since the external drives are often in sleep mode, so it takes a while to enable the drives, and some times it makes a windows I/O error.

My UAC is set to 0, I tried to put it to 1 but it changes nothing.

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Bruno

Mylenium

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Doesn't look like Photoshop. PS' files are simply called PS***TMP.tmp or properly Photoshop Temp **************, depending on version of PS and file system of the scratch drive. This is coming from somewhere else, e.g. a service, a security tool or a third-party extension in PS.

Mylenium

Psych0HoliCAuthor

Participating Frequently

for some reason after turning my user access control (UAC) on and off theese files stopped showing up, so mabye it was service related that they ended up there in the first place. but when i checked with unlocker software they where all used by photoshop.. hmm

anyway the problem is no more and i rest my case. thanks for your quick reply m

Mylenium

Legend

They could have been security session files of the licensing service or some such thing and were probably stored there, because the global temp directory was inaccessible. that would match with your description of toggling UAC et al...

Mylenium

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