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raszi / node-tmp

Temporary file and directory creator for node.js
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Unknown "devtmpnodejsnpm-cache" folder #269

Closed Avivhdr closed 3 years ago

Avivhdr commented 3 years ago

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Though I'm not using this module directly, every time I'm installing any new module in any of my projects using npm install, a folder with the name of "devtmpnodejsnpm-cache" is being created in the root folder of that particular project. See image: image

Searching this folder name in google brings 0 results: image

Does this folder has anything to do with node-tmp? If not, do you know what is it?

silkentrance commented 3 years ago

npmjs does not use the tmp module.

See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-cache for more information about the npm caching system.

Maybe also have a look at your npm configuration, it might override the default location, which should be 

Default: Windows: %LocalAppData%\npm-cache
Posix: ~/.npm
Avivhdr commented 3 years ago

Great. Thanks!

My .npmrc file had cache=C:userdevtmpnodejsnpm-cache And I changed it to: cache=C:\Users\Aviv\AppData\Local\npm-cache