AW: AW: where do I find the temp folder on a Mac?

[Thomas McGrath III]

Hi Tiemo,

No you will have permissions to write to it always, but it remains  
hidden as it should be. That's all. And you checking what you are  
doing IS a good reason to do this, I think.

It is just that when ever I have 'issues' like slow downs of my system  
I have to run a check and fix my permissions and the Disk Utility app  
usually resets all of the permissions that I have changed. I am pretty  
sure the hidden state of a folder is tied into the permissions of a  
folder. Someone can correct me if this is not the case.

You are fine in what you are doing here. I was just letting you know  
that it might not be a good idea in a distributed stack or app to go  
around a users system and changing the hidden state of folders.

Tom
On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> now you are puzzeling me, after I just have found my temp folder and  
> was
> happy that everthing worked as expected :) The user shouldn't have a  
> look to
> my files in temp, I just wanted to check what I am doing.
> I don't understand what you mean with permissions and hidden folder
> concerning the temp folder. Should this temp folder usually be  
> hidden (if
> yes, the better) or do I usually don't have a permission to write to  
> it? (if
> yes, not good)
> Could you explain me your thoughts?
> Thanks
> Tiemo
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Thomas McGrath III
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2008 16:28
>> An: How to use Revolution
>> Betreff: Re: AW: where do I find the temp folder on a Mac?
>>
>> Tiemo,
>>
>> This is a good reason to 'see' it but normally it is not acceptable
>> for most Mac users to reveal/show the hidden folders etc. I don't  
>> know
>> if that will effect the permissions on those folders either. I am
>> always having to clean up permissions and this will usually reset the
>> hidden nature of these folders.
>>
>> Tom McGrath III
>> Lazy River Software
>> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
>>
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>>
>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave and Klaus,
>>> enlightning :) I found my temp as you described under 1.
>>> Why I wanted to find it? Because I write some stuff into it (which
>>> is being
>>> deleted after program end) and I wanted to SEE (with my eyes:), if I
>>> wrote
>>> it to the right place.
>>> Thanks Tiemo
>>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use- 
>>>> revolution-
>>>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Klaus Major
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2008 15:45
>>>> An: How to use Revolution
>>>> Betreff: Re: where do I find the temp folder on a Mac?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Tiemo Hollmann,
>>>>
>>>>> Beeing not a Mac guy, I don't know where I find the temp folder  
>>>>> on a
>>>>> Mac. I
>>>>> used the specialfolderpath("temp") and according to Kens website
>>>>> (@Eric: I
>>>>> used the docs!) it is supposed to be: /private/tmp/501/Temporary
>>>>> Items, but
>>>>> I don't see it. Actually I don't even find the "private" path.  
>>>>> Is it
>>>>> hidden,
>>>>> and if yes, how to show it?
>>>>
>>>> obviously there are more than ONE temp folder on OS X and they  
>>>> may be
>>>> even
>>>> different on other machines!
>>>>
>>>> 1.
>>>> put specialfolderpath("temp") -> /Users/klaus/Library/Caches/
>>>> TemporaryItems
>>>>
>>>> BUT:
>>>> 2.
>>>> put the tempname -> /private/var/folders/lK/lKjzn8FMEkS6hmXTm6HEDE 
>>>> ++
>>>> +TQ/TemporaryItems/tmp0
>>>>
>>>> VERY cryptic = geeky :-)
>>>>
>>>> Why do you wan to "find" these folders?
>>>> Do you really want to check them in the Finder?
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way to "go" there would be to simply uzse Rev to open
>>>> these folders :-)
>>>> Put this into the message box
>>>> ...
>>>> launch document specialfolderpath("temp")
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> OR
>>>> set itemdel to "/";launch document (item 1 to -2 of the tempname)
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Tiemo
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Klaus Major
>>>> klaus at major-k.de
>>>> http://www.major-k.de
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> P.S.
>>>> Regarding your last post:
>>>> ...
>>>> Oh boy, shame on me ;(...
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> You know what to do?!!!
>>>>
>>>> And this is the text you should HANDwrite 200 times:
>>>> I will use Erics merveillieux Revolution Search Engine the next  
>>>> time!
>>>>
>>>> :-D
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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