That's great for finding and deleting the temporary files RB saves in
your project folder when you save a copy of a project.

But if you're using the UB version of the IDE, RB saves a potentially
much larger number of files in your temporary folder every time it
launches. I've dragged a copy of
private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/ to my Dock so I can open
the folder anytime RB isn't running and nuke the 16 files it leaves on
my machine at each launch. I'm not using any plugins currently or the
number would be much higher. When I had the MBS plugins loaded, it was
leaving over 100 of these temporary files on each launch. (The file
path may vary on your machine, depending on your user ID -- I set up
my PowerBook with me as the second user and my user ID on that machine
is 502, so the "folders" portion of the above file path is
"folders.502" on the laptop.)

Unfortunately the naming scheme is not that clear that I would feel
safe leaving it up to a script to delete them. The file names all seem
to start with "Temp" but some have a hyphen after that and some don't.
Some have 4 numbers after that and some have five. It's vague enough
that I couldn't guarantee another applilcation isn't using the same
naming scheme. They don't even have the same MacType or MacCreator
codes.

Of course I could save myself the bother of doing this if I rebooted
my machine regularly, but I tend to leave it running for days at a
time, as I assume most OS X users do. And because RAM consumption by
this version of RB seems to increase significantly with each run, I
need to relaunch RB often throughout the day, exasperating the
problem.

On 1/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure if everyone has already been thinking what I'm thinking,
but as a quick fix, Spotlight makes it very easy to get rid of those
temp files...  Just type in "TempSave" and it finds all of them, and
then in the Spotlight window, highlight them all and drag them to the
trash.

- Andrew Keller
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