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Best practice to delete /dbfs/tmp ?

j02424
New Contributor

What is best practice regarding the tmp folder? We have a very large amount of data in that folder and not sure whether to delete, back up etc?

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Debayan
Esteemed Contributor III
Esteemed Contributor III

/dbfs/tmp can contain a lot of files including temporary system files used for intermediary calculations or other sub directories which can contain packages of user defined installations. It is always better to backup the files.

Kaniz_Fatma
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Hi @James Owenโ€‹, We havenโ€™t heard from you on the last response from @Debayan Mukherjeeโ€‹, and I was checking back to see if his suggestions helped you.

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