Temporary folder on OSX

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Tue Jun 24 14:43:00 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 20:36 Europe/Paris, Alex Rice wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:20  AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> That this folder is deleted between sessions may not be mysterious; 
>> could
>> that temporary nature be expected?  I haven't read Apple's spec on 
>> this so I
>> don't know.
>>
>> If you need a persistent folder, you may consider using
>> specialFolderPath("Preferences").
>
> Good point- I think in UNIX the /tmp directory is expected to be 
> cleaned at the next system startup.
>

That the content (files) is cleaned, I understand, but the folder 
should not be deleted !

Based on the answers I received - everybody has a "Temporary Items" 
folder - , I think there is something wrong on my iMac.

Thanks.

>
> Alex Rice, Software Developer
> Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
> alrice at ARCplanning.com
> alrice at swcp.com
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