Re: Wrong Temporary Items?
Re: Wrong Temporary Items?
- Subject: Re: Wrong Temporary Items?
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:07:09 -0500
At 8:02 -0800 12/5/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 12/5/02 1:59 AM, "Chris Page" <email@hidden> wrote:
First, clearly there's some confusion about exactly which of the
folders you listed in your message are "real" temporary items folders.
I suspect one or more of them may be historical -- Apple may have
changed the location at some point, but didn't add any code to delete
old ones. Just a guess.
That's what it looks like. From the last mod date in Oct. 2001 for the
invisible folder in my own User sector, it looks as if OS 10.1 moved the
temp folder to where it is now.
Since I have both systems in different partitions, I can assure you
that you are absolutely right!
Actually if you type:
path to "temp"
in X.2 , you get the temporary folder for X.2.
>
In any case, strictly speaking, there's nothing wrong with items in the
user domain being stored over in "OS X HD:private:tmp:501:". "501" is
your user id, and as long as you have read access to the enclosing
folders, and write access to the desired locations within the 501
subfolder, that should be just fine.
That's the part I was wondering. It requires that every user, not just users
with admin privileges, have read access to /private/tmp. And if "501" is
some sort of alias (?) for my username, where are the other users' temp
folders? I guess they're not available even to Administrators?
501 is not an alias is you. Any user that has the same uid is the
same user. So your root could very well be berkowit. You just have to
have the same uid ( a nice trick, actually). That is if you change
your uid to 0, you *are* root!
Well, trash and desktop of other users are not available for
Administrators as well. So this is the standard behavior.
In X.2 the system temporary folder is Temporary Items at the root level.
Regards
--
Deivy Petrescu
http://www.dicas.com
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