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Re: Easiest way to delete a file
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Re: Easiest way to delete a file


  • Subject: Re: Easiest way to delete a file
  • From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:03:49 +0100

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 06:24 , Ben Mackin wrote:

(for
the record the files are log files and temp files my app makes in the
users home directory. I am not talking about a virus or something)

Don't do that. If your app crashes, you leave a real mess. That's what MS Word does on Windows, I always have to delete 10+ .tmp-files in the document's folder.
There's a place on Mac OS X for temporary files, it's called /tmp. It's automatically cleaned up during the boot process.
And for your log-files, you have to decide if they're important after a reboot. Keep in mind that they might add up to hundreds of megabytes over a longer period of time.

andy


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