On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I have found 3 different temporary folders. Try this command in the message box:put specialFolderPath("temp") & cr & the tempname & cr & $TMPDIR It gives me: /Users/sarah/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/private/var/folders/vF/vFLJdnX0Er44KsbRytuL1U+++TI/TemporaryItems/ tmp2/var/folders/vF/vFLJdnX0Er44KsbRytuL1U+++TI/-Tmp-/ So my question is: which one should I use? In my case, I need it to catch the output from a shell command running in the background. So the shell needs to be able to write, my Rev app needs to be able to read, and preferably to delete the file afterwards to tidy up. I have been using $TMPDIR and that works fine, but specialFolderPath("temp") looks a lot nicer. Are they all functionally the same or are there any differences, particularly if running a non-admin account?
As far as I know the /tmp folder (actually /private/tmp) on OS X is the only one that gets automatically cleaned out on reboot. On a related note, here's some guidance from Apple about where to store temporary files:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html >
Regards, Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
