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macOS Temporary Directory (NSTemporaryDirectory)

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mdeh

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Jan 3, 2009
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A rather dumb but hopefully easy question.

Does the OS keep a TemporaryDirectory at all times.

So the call;

tempDir = NSTemporaryDirecory;

simply returns an existing Directory?


Once the programmer is done with this, does it have to be deleted?

Thanks
 
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larkost

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Oct 13, 2007
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A quick look at the documentation indicates that this returns the user temporary items folder in /private/var/tmp/folders. This does not get erased on reboot, and is available to all processes running as that user. So you should create a directory inside that (or in /tmp if you want it to go away even if you crash) and then remove it at the end of your run.
 
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mdeh

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Jan 3, 2009
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larkost said:
A quick look at the documentation indicates that this returns the user temporary items folder in /private/var/tmp/folders. This does not get erased on reboot, and is available to all processes running as that user. So you should create a directory inside that (or in /tmp if you want it to go away even if you crash) and then remove it at the end of your run.
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Thanks larkost.

When you say "a quick look at the documentation", where exactly did you look. The documentation to a newbie can be pretty daunting.
 
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