# All files are .tmp
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 3, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921 "2018-08-03T16:57:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Bruyere](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Samuel_Bruyere)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/1 "2018-08-03T16:57:22Z")
Hi, Files are sent to the server but with .tmp extension.
Thanks for help. Sam
Log extract : [5FPON] 16:06:32 INFO: Puller (folder "biaum@orange.fr" (5ufpf-4fiek), file “AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst”): finisher: pull: peers who had this file went away, or the file has changed while syncing. will retry later
Server and client in V 0.14.49 on Windows 64bits.
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/2 "2018-08-03T18:27:29Z")
The file changes faster than we are able to sync it, because its open in the application using it
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### Author:  [@ProactiveServices](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/ProactiveServices)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/3 "2018-08-03T19:37:06Z")
Syncing your PST file may not be a good idea - Syncthing will have to hash the entire PST when every change is detected, and remote devices will have to re-hash the entire file every time it’s synced. That’ll chew up a lot of CPU and I/O and if the sync doesn’t complete each time, you won’t have changes synced to remote devices. All the while Outlook is open on one device it will not be able to sync until closed.
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Bruyere](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Samuel_Bruyere)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/4 "2018-08-13T11:37:23Z")
Hi, Found ! This is Panda Antivirus ☹ it seams to lock files and .tmp files are not renamed.
Tks for help. Sam
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Bruyere](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Samuel_Bruyere)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/5 "2018-08-13T11:37:53Z")
For pst, how can I backup emails ?
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/6 "2018-08-13T12:12:19Z")
You can’t, its most likely going to end up corrupt one way or another. Your emails are backed up on the server one way or another.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/7 "2018-08-13T12:23:23Z")
I backup my emails from smtp by running an additional client, getting it up to date, then terminating it and only then do I backup to ensure a consistent state of all the data files. I don’t consider emails being on the server as a backup, for a similar reason that I don’t consider an additional Syncthing device a backup: If somehow files get deleted on any client, they also get deleted on the server. If you need to backup the pst itself, I believe there’s no other option than ensuring that outlook is terminated while the backup happens.
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Bruyere](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Samuel_Bruyere)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/8 "2018-08-13T14:16:24Z")
Thanks for reply. Thinking about 3rd software like pst backup and syncthing the backup pst.
Regards. Sam
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### Author:  [@Samuel\_Bruyere](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Samuel_Bruyere)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/9 "2018-08-17T14:30:55Z")
I don’t know if it is the good place for these
Create batch to backup Thunderbird wit MozBackup.exe 🙂
batch here and in attachement:
taskkill /IM thunderbird.exe “%~dp0mozbackup.exe” “%~dp0backup.moz”
[MozBackup-1.5.1-EN.zip](https://forum-uploads.syncthingcdn.net/original/2X/a/a01ea37f1edf907122a67f596d853a06630e4f8c.zip) (761.4 KB)
Thanks for help. Sam
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/all-files-are-tmp/11921/10 "2018-09-16T14:32:48Z")
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