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.
I disagree. It is the correct choice on Apple's part.
If an application gaks while it's in the middle of processing a scratch file, to create your completed output file.... which would you rather have - something that you can recover from, or have the system delete it entirely?!
I regularly recover Epson printer files from there, as well as things like AppleWorks temp files.
Of course, the whole recovery issue would be moot if Apple had gotten off its bloated ass and fixed the exception handlers in the Mac OS a dozen years ago. It's an embarrassment that a mature 19yro OS can abend so easily.
- Dan.
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