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Deleting these folders should fix configuration issues and cause a fresh set of folders to be created when workench and spacecliam are next run.  Diagnosing such issues can be very difficult. The Microsoft tool Process Monitor (procmon) can be very useful for looking at low level operating system events. In this case it reported thousands of NAME COLLISION errors as the spaceclaim executable tried to write to existing temporary files to the user&#8217;s temp folder. 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