Re: Rescued items from HD

[James S Jones]

Files found in the trash after restart (either normal or following a 
crash) are temporary files not properly deleted by an application (or, 
by the system). They appear in the trash as a fix in 9.1 and 9.2 to 
correct for problems introduced in 9.0. In 9.0, temp directories were 
never flushed out by the system, resulting in certain apps being 
unstartable. The problem was probably most noticeable with PageMaker, 
which creates temp files during the start up process. When the (hidden) 
temp folder built up enough residual files, PM could no longer create a 
new temp file and couldn't start. The files listed below look like they 
could have come from PM, btw.

Apple's solution of moving the files to the trash folder, instead of 
just deleting them outright, has always struck me as a poor choice.

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 08:03  PM, Fluxstringer wrote:

I also get the rescued items folder in the Trash on a normal shut
down.  What produces anywhere from 485K to 30M of files with names
like:
REGEDBMOJICLLkkkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLklkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLlkkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLllkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLmkkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLmlkkkkkk--------
REGEDBMOJICLLnkkkkkkk--------


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