What exactly are these "Job - <numbers>" used for by Windows?


Just Old George

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My SSD is about 80% full of folders that begin with "Job-" followed by a string of numbers ending in each days date. It appears that one folder is created each day and the oldest ones must cycle off. Anyone know what these are, how they are created, and if I have any control over the number of folders saved?
Thanks in advance. Screenshot:

2023-04-26 18_08_10-Job-202206271527555.png
 
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What is inside the folders? Each "job" is created at 11:30 every night indicating to me there is a scheduled task created by some software. Review your task scheduler to see if you can determine the task. in search box type 'task' then open task scheduler from search results.

Your screenshot is cut off. What is the file path where these "jobs" are stored?
 

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Solved. Thank you glasskuter! That was it. I completely forgot about a (secondary, non-cloud) backup that I had scheduled. Nice catch!
 

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