# Finalbuilder 8 leaves lots of empty folders behind in %temp% directory
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [December 16, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615 "2015-12-16T04:41:30Z")
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### Author:  [@arthur\_hoornweg](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/arthur_hoornweg)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/1 "2015-12-16T04:41:30Z")
Hello Finalbuilder team,
it appears that Finalbuilder 8 creates a new subdirectory in %temp% whenever I run a script. This subdirectory is never deleted, I now have a few hundred. The build number is 8.0.0.1432.
Kind regards,
Arthur Hoornweg
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### Author:  [@nevar](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/nevar)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/2 "2015-12-16T10:39:37Z")
Hi Arthur,
To help us narrow this down would you be able to tell us what the name of the sub folder and files that are created in %Temp%? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@arthur\_hoornweg](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/arthur_hoornweg)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/3 "2015-12-17T08:59:25Z")
The folders have names like “FBEXTMP20151217\_083713” and they’re totally empty. Sometimes as many as three are left behind in a single build, sometimes none at all.
My Windows7 VM uses Microsoft Security Essentials and I have the impression that this virus scanner sometimes needs a little time to scan a file or folder. I had to put a few delays into my build script or it would fail with “file in use” errors in certain places, mostly when I performed an action on a newly generated executable (such as writing a checksum into it or performing signtool.exe). Maybe the virus scanner still has a handle on your temporary folder when you try to delete it?
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### Author:  [@nevar](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/nevar)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2015, 11:15am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/4 "2015-12-17T11:15:52Z")
Hi Arthur,
Thank you for the name of the temporary directory that is being created. I was able to track the issue down to the new pin externals action for subversion. It wasn’t cleaning up one of the temporary folders it was using for a sync. I will add a fix and upload it today.
Update: Here is the build that I promised.
```
[http://downloads.finalbuilder.com/d…0\_1436.exe](http://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/800/FB800_1436.exe)
```
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### Author:  [@arthur\_hoornweg](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/arthur_hoornweg)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/5 "2015-12-18T10:33:52Z")
Great, thanks!
Say, you mentioned a backport of the bugfixes in the “pin externals” action for FB7 a few days ago, do you have an ETA for that? We still have some VM’s and build machines running XP and W2003…
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8-leaves-lots-of-empty-folders-behind-in-temp-directory/3615/6 "2015-12-21T01:33:28Z")
Hi Arthur
This build has the fix backported from FB8 :
[http://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/700/FB700\_3464.exe](http://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/700/FB700_3464.exe)