why did xampp/tmp fill up with 20 gigs?

[jatora]

This morning I got on my computer to find my C drive had gone from 20 gigs free to 20 megs free. I started snooping around folders (since windows is a horrible operating system and doesn't make it easy to see a log of what things ate up HD space) and found a folder in xampp:

c:\xampp\tmp

it's filled with 26 gigs of .tmp files.

1. why did this happen?
2. is it safe to delete all of it?

[scragar]

Files in a tmp dir should be safe to delete, I would be interested to know what caused it to fill up though, that folder should be emptied as time goes on(used as temp storage for things like uploads, sessions etc), I don't know why it would possibly be so large.

[rpgfan3233]

Check your server logs. XAMPP comes with Apache, which should have stored some information in access.log. There is also error.log that might prove useful. You might check those out and see if anything looks abnormal.