Re: huge temporary files
Re: huge temporary files
- Subject: Re: huge temporary files
- From: William Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:01:32 -0700
On Apr 24, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Andy Lee wrote:
That used to be the case, but it changed in 10.4:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2267.html>
A folder called Recovered Files appears in my Trash
One or more Recovered Files folder may appear in your Trash after
restarting your computer. The recovered files are temporary files
used by Mac OS X applications. Usually temporary files are deleted
by an application when it no longer needs them. If an application
quits unexpectedly, the temporary files may not get deleted by the
application. When you restart your computer, Mac OS X moves these
temporary files to the Trash.
There is a very big difference between a "temporary file" and a "file
in /tmp". Files in /tmp are regular old files like every other file
on the system. The handling of the directory's contents on boot is
the special bit; the boot process blasts the contents of /tmp, never
to be recovered again.
Carbon (Mac OS 9 and prior) had a notion of a Temporary Items folder
into which an Application could cache away temporary files. If the
App crashed, the temporary files would be left behind and could often
be used to recover potentially lost data. That tech note refers to
the automatic recovery of said items upon boot.
b.bum
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