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Re: Wrong Temporary Items?
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Re: Wrong Temporary Items?


  • Subject: Re: Wrong Temporary Items?
  • From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:59:00 -0800

On Wednesday, Dec 4, 2002, at 23:08 US/Pacific, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

path to temporary items from local domain
--> alias "OS X HD:private:tmp:501:Temporary Items:"

path to temporary items from user domain
--> alias "OS X HD:private:tmp:501:Temporary Items:"

But that's not in my user domain - it's the local, computer-wide, domain.

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.

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.

Having said that, I don't know for certain whether we're getting entirely the correct result. I get the same result for the temporary items folder in every domain. I half expected a different location or an error for the system and network domains. For example, trying to get the trash in the other domains returns an error for me. Perhaps this difference is strictly a bug, but it isn't clear to me whether they should both return errors or folders for the other domains.

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Chris Page - Mac Guy - Palm, Inc.

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