Etilqs files temp wd

Search Support Search. Learn More. Chosen solution WinPatrol is nagging you about those because you enabled the Monitor Hidden Files option, which isn't recommended. These are database files used by the public domain database called SQLite. Another common hidden legitimate file will start with api-ms-win- or ext-ms-win. Gingerbread Man.

Chosen Solution WinPatrol is nagging you about those because you enabled the Monitor Hidden Files option, which isn't recommended. As expected, problem resolved, but no insight into why this was happening. Was it to do with me running an old version of WD Smartware?

Was it something to do with Avast Antivirus? Who knows. Support Downloads Knowledge Base. German Spanish Italian French. I had 35Gb worth of etilqs files. While the software is working as designed some on here may not agree on the design , we have changed this behavior in our 1. The files will still be created, but will be much smaller. If this happens there is no problem. Most are gradually populated but some seem to remain empty all the time, even when the backup is complete.

Is this another issue? WD was very responsive to my postings on this issue. Initially I was told that the retention of the sqlite files in the Windows temp folder was a MS Windows problem, and the WD software was working as it should.

Subsequent to that I was told that the next release of WDSmartware will continue to place these files in the temp folder, but that they will be significantly smaller than the 2GB per day files users are now getting. In the mean time, I suppose we all have to manually erase the temp folder and empty our recycle folder daily. I wanted to clarify something that you mention in your post. WD is going to address this issue, however, these files will still exist. We are reducing the amount of information stored in these files as apart of other back-end changes related to CPU and memory usage.

These files will be significantly smaller. And if the software is designed not to delete the files, is there any harm in deleting them manually, eg does this increase the time needed to back up in future?