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ruwim
Posts: 23,589
Registered: ‎27-06-2011

Re: Deleting Skype's temporary files


martaortiz0697 wrote:

I tried what you have suggested but still I can't seem to delete the temp files. I have a file fancy_shadow_ne and so fouth.  Please, HELP...thank you so much


Can you explain what file are you talking about?

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Novel Adventurer
martaortiz0697
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎24-04-2012

Re: Deleting Skype's temporary files

Hello,   I am trying to delete the skype temp files.  The files are all part of skype.  Thank you for responding.

 

Marta

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ruwim
Posts: 23,589
Registered: ‎27-06-2011

Re: Deleting Skype's temporary files

Have you stopped Skype from running on your computer? Can you see any Skype.exe process in Windows Task Manager-> Processes tab? Do you receive any error message when trying to delete the temp files?

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Miiyah2
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎15-09-2012

Re: Deleting Skype's temporary files

Message problems
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Tamim
Posts: 25,465
Registered: ‎27-09-2011

Re: Deleting Skype's temporary files


Miiyah2 wrote:
Message problems

try this.

 

copy this text below in green and save as temp.bat file, Use notepad

then copy this temp.bat file to C:\Users\tamim\AppData\Roaming\Skype

 

@echo off
systemdrive%\Progra~1\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe /shutdown
taskkill /f /IM skype.exe
DEL /S temp-* *.lock *-journal *.db-journal *.lck

 

Run (double click) the temp.bat file. Wait 5 second and run this file again.

Regards,
Tamim
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