> On 19 Aug 2015, at 1:36pm, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
> > Meaning that on a persistent temp storage the files will stay forever > (or until a manually deleted). Then again, on systems such as windows > where temp files are never deleted this is to be expected. > Hmm. On every Unix box I've seen /tmp gets cleaned up either on shutdown > or on startup. (With the possible exception of 'safestart' or 'safeboot' > where implemented.) > Are you telling me that Windows doesn't do either ? No wonder the hard > disks fill up. Hehehehe. It is a plot to sell new computers every year or so (and Operating Systems). This is a long standing issue with Windows since about Windows 1.0 -- though back then TEMP files were stored in the TEMP file directory under DOS, this is no longer the case. With each new version of Windows and Microsoft Smegma, the number of temporary storage locations that require manual cleaning multiply like oversexed rabbits in a dark room. Even just *finding* all the temp directories (and keeping track of them) is a full time maintenance job. It is far easier and less time consuming to just throw the computer away every year or so and buy a new one -- which is the design goal and what most consumers do. Others just re-format and re-install every six months to a year. A very few hunt down the temp directories (Windows 10 with one user account has 43 of them on the boot (C:) drive alone at current count and I do not know if I have found all of them yet -- it has only been RTM a couple of weeks) and wipe up the slobbering drool on a regular basis.
