Hi, while I was cleaning my hard drive, I always remove temp files and directories from
C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\Temp
I came across the following directory
C:\Users\salam.SALAM\AppData\Local\Temp**\DockerDesktop** which is almost 3Gigs.
Is it safe to delete this folder?
Thanks in advance
Sicne the uninstallation guide (Uninstall | Docker Docs) doesn’t mention that fodler, I think it is safe to say it is not needed for Docker DEsktop after it is already installed. I don’t have my Windows machine on, but if you share what you see in that folder, someone can how important those files look like. I don’t think anything would be used by Docker Desktop in a temp folder or at least nothing important.
These files look like part of the installer so you can delete it, but if you want to make sure that nothing reads the files when you try to delete it, stop Docker Desktop before that.
Humm… may be it is risky.
For me I would try that on a test machine.
Those kind of things are usually not documented and the reason is simple.
Many software use the trick to put things on AppData\Temp so as to make it usable on that machine ONLY.
Since this folder as default does not roam with the profile so if you login somewhere else with the same profile
everything behind it will will not be there.
Unless of course you use GPO so as to make dirs below Temp roam.
But then you will have a lot more time logging and the profile will grow fast as many apps but thing down there