{"id":4092,"date":"2026-06-08T18:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4092"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:47","slug":"the-folder-fs-capricorn-in-windows-temporary-folder-fills-up-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/the-folder-fs-capricorn-in-windows-temporary-folder-fills-up-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"The folder fs-capricorn in Windows temporary folder fills up hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>When Windows Endpoint client is installed, in C:\\Windows\\Temp\\, the folder fs-capricorn fills up hard disk with files named\u00a0<b>AV-malware-names<\/b> until there is no free space left.<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>The files in the fs-capricorn folder are normally deleted when the computer is shut down. Unexpected system crashes can cause a situation where the files are not automatically removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can safely go ahead and manually remove the AV-malware-names files in the fs-capricorn folder. Take note that some of the files can be in use and locked and therefore they cannot be removed. You can skip the removal of those files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In C:\\Windows\\Temp\\, the folder fs-capricorn fills up hard disk until there is no free space left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4092","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005635","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:01:47","import_hash":"aefe276583a13052307375fae68ffe37f556dc25","vanilla_article_id":32303,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32303-the-folder-fs-capricorn-in-windows-temporary-folder-fills-up-hard-drive","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}