Ton of files in /forum

[redtailboa]

Hey Guys I am running VB 3.8 and I have noticed that my forums directory has 1000's of files that start with this name: vbupload

Examples:

-rw------- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 9 04:43 vbuploadZzpqIZ
-rw------- 1 apache apache 0 Mar 16 00:40 vbuploadZzR8jy
-rw------- 1 apache apache 0 Jan 25 18:32 vbuploadzZrcQU

About 99% of these files are 0 bytes. Image uploads work on the site. Does anyone know what these files are? Can the blank files be deleted?

[blackberry]

hm i think you should ask mod author for this!!

[Brandon Sheley]

related..
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/275926-vbupload-files-in-forum-root-dir/page2

[BirdOPrey5]

Despite what was reported on the vBulletin.com thread there is indeed code in vBulletin 3.x to create those files.

In 3.8.7 it starts on line 271 of class_upload.php and also line 341 of class_vurl.php.

It looks like the guy who said it has something to do with the php temp directory was correct- my guess it's a result of a server without a working php temp directory defined- or some other temp directory issue.

But it looks like they can safely be deleted- especially the 0 byte ones.