# Hello everyone. Thanks for the project. Why hasn't the program been updated for a long time?

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/hello-everyone-thanks-for-the-project-why-hasnt-the-program-been-updated-for-a-long-time/7178
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/hello-everyone-thanks-for-the-project-why-hasnt-the-program-been-updated-for-a-long-time/7178 "2019-05-28T08:34:30Z")
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### Author: ![itractus](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@itractus](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/itractus)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/hello-everyone-thanks-for-the-project-why-hasnt-the-program-been-updated-for-a-long-time/7178/5 "2019-06-14T12:08:52Z")

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> [@jesjimher](#):
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> fills up temp space when a compacting takes place (temp files aren’t properly deleted)

This is my issue I think. Since it is running in a production env, can canary be used safely?

> [@Filling up /tmp/ dir](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filling-up-tmp-dir/7298):
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> I’ve been noticing that the /tmp/ folder is being used by duplicati to store sertain files. This is totally alright with me, as long as it is used as intended. Temporary. This however is not the case. The /tmp/ folder seems to fill up with files, and not clear out ever. Since my backup task runs without issue, I haven’t done anything with it until now. My root folder is filling up and half of it is being used by duplicati’s /tmp dir. Since we are talking about my backups, I did not want to remo…

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