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henrik_nordling
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On-prem data GW keeps creating junk files on C-drive

After installing a new PBI On-prem data GW 14.16.6549.2 junk files and folder a created on the C-drive

Example of folders names:

+360YjLX+XPUzmDSeJ+tr8t3XOXDiJvuh0OYpY69Bw=

+LdWMP+iqbr+5doyd1DZiiFYd1OknhyH6F1m4YyHoo=

+LtLM+aswqVWoa85K8onvUPgm78aexj4gx9VzlwGCM=

and so on.

About 10-20 new folders are created every day, and I really have to concentrate when cleaning them out so that the windows folder among others do not get removed!

 

Within the folders, I find the exact same structure:

     Index - empty folder

     Temp - empty folder

     Cache.Key - file

 

I have two other gateway installations NOT doing this, and I cant find anything in the logs explaining why those folders are created. I know it is the GW creating them because file owner is local account "PBIEgwService".

 

Fist step would of course be to reinstall the gw but it runs a bounch data sources in a global company  with a number of credentials, so the task of re-installing is quite excensive. And so I dont really like to do it if unnessesary.

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I have also installed version 14.16.6614.5 and junk folders are no longer being created. The issue has been fixed in this version.

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