I did not drop an access link.
Anyway, the tmp was what I was seeing in the new vps site. The table in the online site is “wp-usermeta”. It had over 6 million rows in it. I deleted the rows that did not match my active users of 149 by identifying the “user_id” for each user and deleting all others in the table.
I now have only 4299 rows in the online file.
I was having hackers that were registering by the thousands until I install a spam plugin a couple of years ago. Even though I had removed all of the invalid registrations over a few days, the meta records were not deleted. Is this normal?
