atw: Interesting possible issue with Adobe CS2

Hi everyone.
I have been playing with Adobe CS2 for some months now and had a
disturbing experience last week with the computer at work. I went to
open (an admittedly large) CD label file and it wouldn't open,
delivering the message that the swap disk was unavailable. That usually
means you have a disk space problem and as a consequence I freaked (I
only have 1/3 of 40Gb of local hard drive used normally), it should not
have had any problems. Of course, it was another one of those jobs...
 
I immediately went to defrag and performed a hard drive check and found
an extraordinary amount of fragmented file usage, spread unevenly right
throughout the drive. On closer inspection I found out that these damn
files were saved rtf's, fragmented pdf's from Distiller and wasted temps
out of Designer! 
 
Over 15Gb worth of named, but irrelevant files listed in the temp files
under my user in Documents and Settings. Designer definitely seemed to
be the most pervasive culprit (consistently largest and the most
numerous files). It appears that Adobe is saving these files as part of
the creation process but forgets to delete the markers to them. Weird
stuff. Definitely a bug. These are unrelated to system crashes or system
instability. 
 
So take note that you may have temp file problems with Adobe Acrobat 7
when compiling pdf's. 
 
I don't know that it was related to not turning the PC off enough. I do
know that the machine has increased in speed when building pdf's in Word
since I removed these damn temp files.
 
Has anyone had similar problems?
 
Have a great weekend everyone.
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