good to know videos from yt-dlp weren't on /tmp at that time I think and more important is that they were freshly downloaded and torrented files maybe they were seeding, if not then your thing makes sense, I did torrent to /tmp
but this doesn't explain yt-dlp videos going missing, I think.. I'll keep eye on this in future thanks On Mon, March 11, 2024 7:12 pm, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:37:04 -0000, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: > > >> sometimes, but I said other files are not deleted, files in same path >> folder as the file that was deleted so /tmp/folder/video got deleted, >> but /tmp/folder/jsonfile did not get deleted same with home directory I >> think and with torrent there were about 3-4 other files about same size >> >> I told you there were other files in same folder, why still ask >> redundant question? >> >> I didn't experience daily clearing of /tmp files and computer online >> sometimes for days? > > The /etc/daily cron job removes files from /tmp that haven't been > _accessed_ in 7 days. Empty directories in /tmp that haven't been > _modified_ in over a day are also removed. This may explain why > some files get removed and others do not. > > You can try commenting out the bits of /etc/daily after "Removing > scratch and junk files" and see if that fixes your problem. > > - todd > >
