Re: Question about the Foundation Framework
Re: Question about the Foundation Framework
- Subject: Re: Question about the Foundation Framework
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:29:17 +0100
On Feb 19, 2009, at 16:36, Michael Ash wrote:
Nothing to do with OOP, it's just good practice on the system.
Temporary files go in the temporary directory. There are several
reasons why this is a good idea:
- The temporary directory gets cleaned out regularly by the system. If
you forget to delete the file or your app crashes or something else
like that goes wrong, your temporary file won't sit around on the
user's HD forever taking up space.
- It's hidden and out of the way, so users aren't bothered by seeing
temporary files they don't care about pop up in their home directory
somewhere.
- It's local even when the home directory itself is not. For example,
if the user's home directory is stored on a network server, it's
wasteful to put temporary files on that network server too when
they're only needed locally.
Additionally, files in the temporary directory are ignored by Time
Machine automatically.
andy
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