dhbailey wrote:

> What I have noticed, when I haven't cleared out my TEMP directory
> manually in a long time, is that the program foolishly reuses the old
> names, as if the programmers have decided on a finite number of temp
> file names and the program simply recycles them as needed.

> [...]

> Maybe they simply need to use a different file naming structure,
> allowing up to 256 temp files for a single date or a single session or
> a single work/date combination, and then they could finally just do a
> DEL C:\TEMP\fin??????????.tmp command (or the mac equivalent)
> (obviously the
> path would change to whatever anybody sets the temp directory to be)
> everytime the program quits.

I just looked at my temporary files and discovered 2245 Finale files (WinFin 2004), dating from March 2004, and all named differently, with names like FIN1C40, AFAI could see.

--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer

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