Will Deleting Old Files Selenium is Accessing cause Issues?

[Dominic Wiltermood]

Summary

We have Selenium working & it creates tons of temp files. To mitigate this, we run scripts (Powershell scripts pushed via Ninja) to delete files that have not been accessed in more than 7 days. 

Our goal is to keep the storage from maxing out on these Selenium boxes

Problem

Selenium is accessing all files in the 'SystemTemp' folder when it runs, therefore, the scripts don't delete anything.

Question #1

We're wondering if manually deleting files older than 7 days causes any problems for Selenium since it's accessing these files each day.

Question #2

Does Selenium need to access these folders from previous days to work? if it doesn't need to, can we stop it from doing so?

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

What version of Selenium are you using?

What are the contents of one of these directories? Can you share that details ?

Selenium by itself creates some temp files, when firefox browser is involved (atleast it used to in 3.x series). AFAIK selenium doesn't need those temp files to be available in the same location and it should be fine if you delete them manually once and check how it goes. 

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Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Nortier David]

Hello

 

And what about the creation date ?

 

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[Adrian]

Hi,

Deleting these files will not cause an issue.

These files should be automatically deleted when the tests quit the browser (driver.quit()).

If the files are not deleted, then can you see a lot of chromedriver tasks running in Taskmaster once the tests are finished running?  If so then investigate to see why.  

Cheers,

Adrian.