Chromedriver not deleting scoped* dir in temp folder after test is complete

Question

With latest chromedriver.exe running into out of disk space issues as chromedriver is not deleting the folder named scoped_* at the end of the execution. It is occupying almost

Answer 1

This is a known bug that will be fixed with Chromedriver 2.30 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=644

This appears to be a race condition between ChromeDriver and Chrome. ChromeDriver creates these temp directories for use by Chrome, and at the end ChromeDriver tries to delete those directories. ChromeDriver waits for the main Chrome process to terminate before doing the deletion, but some Chrome child processes might still be running and holding on to those directories, causing the deletion to fail. Currently ChromeDriver doesn't retry the deletion.

Deleting the temp files like Daniel mentioned can be a temporary solution but I would remove it as soon as Chromedriver 2.30 is released.

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Update

Chromedriver 2.30 is out and should fix this issue.

Update 2

It seems your mileage may vary with this. The release notes for that version listed this as a solved problem back in the day but some people still see the issue. Also this version is extremely old at this point - so while this answer was relevant at the time of post newer versions of the Chromedriver should be used.