JUNK DIRECTORY IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

A junk directory identification method and apparatus. The junk directory identification method comprises: obtaining a directory to be identified; wherein, the directory to be identified is a directory generated after running of an application software; obtaining the file names of the files in the directory to be identified; determining whether the file names of the files in the directory to be identified all conform to temporary file naming rule; if so, determining the directory to be identified as a junk directory. Hence, the present solution uses a method of determining whether the file names of the files in the directory to be identified all conform to the temporary file naming rule to identify whether a directory to be identified is junk file, making full use of the unique naming method when a directory automatically created by a software application caches files, and can therefore effectively identify whether a directory in an application software is a junk directory.