# "Trouble without a name" message box starting Processing 4.4.10

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-without-a-name-message-box-starting-processing-4-4-10/47598>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [December 8, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-without-a-name-message-box-starting-processing-4-4-10/47598 "2025-12-08T00:32:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-without-a-name-message-box-starting-processing-4-4-10/47598/1 "2025-12-08T00:32:04Z")

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Hello,

I got this message for the first time starting Processing 4.4.10:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/3X/5/9/592c8a89257ab4ee7be5365fb9ad08083d69d266.png)

Any idea why?

It started up normally after message box appeared.

`:)`

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**Author:** ![sableraph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sableraph/32/251_2.png) [@sableraph](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sableraph)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-without-a-name-message-box-starting-processing-4-4-10/47598/2 "2025-12-08T07:54:41Z")

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I tracked this down to this place in the Processing code: [processing/app/Base.java#L252-L271](https://github.com/processing/processing4/blob/467cee749b8441a1c6600d61dc356fe605aefd6a/app/src/processing/app/Base.java#L252-L271)

It looks like this was introduced to get around [an issue on Linux](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/549) where a shared TEMP folder was causing name collisions in new sketches.

Which OS are you using?

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-without-a-name-message-box-starting-processing-4-4-10/47598/3 "2025-12-08T13:11:24Z")

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I am using Windows 10.

I was doing some PC cleanup and cleared out my _TEMP_ folder earlier in the day; I clean this out routinely.

This is the first time I have ever seen this and only the one time so far.

`:)`