ShadowCopyCache folders in Temp Folder, what are they?

Hi,

these directories are from our service Solarwinds JobEngine. Each JobEngine Worker (jobs executor) has own copy of all used libraries to don't block original files. Directory is created for each Worker Process (ShadowCopyCache-ProcessID).

Seems that you have couple of orphans there.

You can clear this directory, but before you do that please stop service SolarWinds JobEngine otherwise it can behave unpredictable or block some file.

Thanks

ET;

Stopped all the Solarwinds services and was able to delete the 4gbs of folders with no issues.  Thanks for the help!

Hmm and two months later I have another 4.2gb of these orphaned files in my Temp directory.  While I could just clear these out, I would really like to understand why they are appearing in the first place.  If the jobengines are crashing randomly, could that be a factor?

I have the same thing happening and I clear the folder out once a month.

Just opened up a ticket on this issue, Case # 345781.  Once again had no issues purging them, it's now more a question of why is this happening.

keep us posted, I want to know why too.

While this may explain what these files are and how to deal with them on an emergency basis,  it would seem to me that SW support needs to add a procedure to the Nightly  Maintenance routine to clean these files up on daily basis.  Since my most recent upgrade we are generating 400 to 600 MB of temp files everday. 

All, after I cleared out the files the last time we set out Antivirus software not to scan that particular folder anymore.  This seems to have stopped the problem.  We also excluded it from backups as well.