specialFolderPath("Temporary") on OS X

[Alex Rice]

specialFolderPath("Temporary") works on Mac OS X, most of the time. It 
returns a path like /tmp/xxx/temporary items/ where xxx is the UID. 
However, on my OS X box, it has recently started cleaning out /tmp on 
reboot, and after that specialFolderPath("Temporary") returns empty. 
After some time has passed, some other app, or the OS, decides to 
recreate the /tmp/xxx/temporary directories and then 
specialFolderPath("Temporary") works again.

It's very strange. Anyone know the cause of this? I'm just going to use 
the unix-like "/tmp" and not use specialFolderPath("Temporary") for OS 
X, but I would like to know how this is happening.

Anyone using the MLXEditor plugin, this is a possible gotcha.


Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com

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