# Temporary files deleted during Backup

**URL:** <https://forum.duplicati.com/t/temporary-files-deleted-during-backup/1401>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/temporary-files-deleted-during-backup/1401 "2017-11-13T21:56:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/JonMikelV)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/temporary-files-deleted-during-backup/1401/2 "2017-11-13T22:17:44Z")

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> [@torsten](#):
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> A few seconds after deleting them I got a notification from Duplicati telling me that it’s missing some temp file.

It would help if you could include the actual message from your logs, but did it look at all like the one mentioned here?

> [@FileNotFoundException (temp file not found during backup)](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filenotfoundexception-temp-file-not-found-during-backup/991):
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> In the middle of a backup to Google Drive the following exception was thrown. Is this a known issue? System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\Temp\dup-fa76e609-d5cd-4b1f-bf66-613cf023453b'. File name: 'C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\Temp\dup-fa76e609-d5cd-4b1f-bf66-613cf023453b' at Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.BackupHandler.HandleFilesystemEntry(ISnapshotService snapshot, BackendManager backend, String path, FileAttributes attributes) at Dupli…

Note that in post #2 it is confirmed that if you stop the backup then “Just run the backup again, and it will figure out that the data is already uploaded and not upload it again.”

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