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D4koon / WhatsappTray

Minimize Whatsapp Desktop-Client to Tray
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Why is WhatsappTray trying to access a CSV file? #128

Open Code-R-xplorer opened 2 years ago

Code-R-xplorer commented 2 years ago

I've been using WhatsappTray for a long time now and never ran into any issues with it until now.

While it is running it tries to access a temp file located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp called WERD23E.tmp.csv.

I'm just wondering why it is trying to delete a Windows Error Reporting file. Is this normal?

D4koon commented 2 years ago

How you know it is WhatsappTray that is trying to delete that file? And no it should not...

Code-R-xplorer commented 2 years ago

I know it's WhatsappTray because my antivirus picks it up and blocks it and when it blocks it WhatsappTray crashes. Here's a screenshot from my antivirus. It could be a false positive but just wanted to check.

Screenshot 2022-02-18 151453

D4koon commented 2 years ago

Strange. My only guess iss that the report is handled by some code that is automatically included in every visual-studio binary and WhatsappTray crashed before and now some cleanup-routine was running there??? Can you see what the csv-file contains? Is it related to WhatsappTray

WhatsappTray itself does not have any code that handles those files. Did you download from this github-Webseit? If not the better download from here...

Code-R-xplorer commented 2 years ago

Finally managed to look at the file and did some more looking online. Basically, the file is like a snapshot of all running processes at the time of an app crashing and once the app has done what it needs to do it deletes the file as it's no longer needed. As WhatsappTray isn't a known application to my anti-virus it just blocks it from deleting the file. So it looks like it's a default crash handler I suppose. I've attached the file in case it is of any use to you but I don't think it's an issue with WhatsappTray more my anti-virus being a bit too protective. WEREB1F.tmp.csv