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Spotlight .attach files filling up the hard drive

paul.bankston
3 months ago

Spotlight .attach files are filling up the C:\ drive. 

Here is the path.
C:users>spotlight service account>appdata>local>temp
 I've tried opening these ".attach" files and I haven't found an application that can open them other than Notepad. Once open I can see only the word "deadlock" a couple times and then everything else is scrambled.
What I'm wanting to ask Spotlight support is do they know what is creating all of these deadlock ".attach" files in C:\users\spotlight service account\appdata\local\temp? Can Spotlight be configured to clean those files up automatically or should we set up something to clean up those files periodically?
  • +1 3 months ago

    Hi Paul,

    The ".attach" files are are created by Spotlight email notification alarm with attachment file. For example, the Deadlock email notification having the attached deadlock zip file. The .attach file contains data from the zip file which can include expressions and other details about the alarm. Spotlight currently doesn't clean up the file, so suggesting to periodically clean the folder.