title: c:\windows\assembly\temp eats all our diskspace
body: <p>We have a server where we have many development enviroments.
  We have since this spring (4 months) had issues with the c:\windows\assembly\temp folder never cleans itself.</p>
  
  <p>Today the size is ~28gb of the folder it self.(out of our 80gb C: disk)</p>
  
  <p>All threads i've read comes back to that the temp folder should be a "self cleaning" directory</p>
  
  <p>This is the most linked blogposts about GAC and it's temp folders:
  <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2006/11/17/gac-temp-and-tmp.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2006/11/17/gac-temp-and-tmp.aspx</a>
  <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/clr/thread/f728af5e-c13f-48bc-ab60-0e6f1886321c/" rel="noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/clr/thread/f728af5e-c13f-48bc-ab60-0e6f1886321c/</a>
  <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2005/10/24/484063.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2005/10/24/484063.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>using the gacutil.exe /cdl seems to only clean the c:\windows\assembly\tmp folder. =(</p>
  
  <p>Now to my question: How can I clean this directory?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have not found a permanent solution to this. so far I have manually deleted the c:\windows\assembly\temp folder when it grows too big. not all files are possible to delete, because they are in use.</p>
  
  <p>Still I would love to hear why this is happening.</p>