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Can't shift-delete? Dodged that one. Then you wonder how many people they "helped" with that script before and after.
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Why do companies insist on shoving their programmers through the same helpdesk process that accounts and marketing have to use? If the helpdesk guys knew anything, they'd be programmers.
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Loving the expression of urgency by typos.
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Windows search apparently just ignores all punctuation in your search filter, so all those dots and stars and parentheses weren't really doing anything anyway...
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After the helpdesk guys have had to deal with enough programmers, they might have learned something.
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Are temp files really still a problem? Sure, once upon a time they could be a threat to the free space on the drive, but aside from browser cache files, what damage could having old junk really do in today's world?
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Admittedly this was over a decade ago but I ran into a case where a program sometimes would crash due to the contents of the temp directory. It was really strange as it was my code and all I was doing with the temp directory at that point was opening a log file and the log file wasn't the culprit, killing it had no effect on the crash. Unfortunately, the problem only occurred on factory-floor machines and it wasn't practical to leave one around long enough for me to come over (I was 2 hours away) and figure out what was really going on.
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Yes, in older days there was a real ceiling on the number of files a folder could hold, so it's definitely possible other processes were filling said folder. Folder Size Limits I suppose trwtf would have been using the temp folder for logging a non-temporary process.
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A few years ago, Acrobat Reader would crap all over itself when it's temp subdirectory would get too many files. Don't know if that's been fixed - I just have a process that kills off temp files over a month old.
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That wasn't the issue--you're not going to hit the files in a folder limit while opening an existing file.
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Unless some other process was using a tool to forcibly "clean" the temp directory, which tool had the capability to break open file locks, which one of them happened to belong to your application, and said application may or may not have had exception handling for when it's file handles are ripped from it.
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Most sysadmins started out on a first-line helpdesk. Further in their career they might be called Enterprise Admin, System Admin, root or even God, but in the end they are still a helpdesk - but by now the Nth line. Your disdain for helpdesks is just as unselective as this admittedly not-too-smart operator's script.
On a side note: I support programmers every day. They're so superior that they complain about "System Idle" eating all of their processor power...
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Nothing of the sort was going on. This was a vanilla W98 install with only my program on it.
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Wow, that is definitely odd. Perhaps the Gremlins just woke up every now and then? ;)
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If you open an email attachment in Outlook (up to and including 2010, not sure about 2013), it will save the file to a temporary folder then open it with the assigned program. If you open another file with the same name, it will save it to the same folder, with a (1) appended, then (2), and so on, until (99), at which point, you won't be able to open these attachments anymore until you clear the (hidden) folder. Generally this bites users who receive some sort of scheduled report in an email, when the file name of the report is always the same.
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If your software reads its old temp files on startup or at some point during execution, that could cause crashes, corruption, etc. The obvious solution is to not read old temp files, but sometimes you have crash recovery and have to balance that with resilience.
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I didn't say the learning involved staying in the job.
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I... don't even know what to say to that... You build system is capable of generating billions of files?!
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Time to stop using the company laptop and just move any work onto your own pc... or dual boot it. Another case of avoiding work to do work
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It's unfortunate but true. It's a management goal to standardize any CS effort. You, as CS staff, receive warning for talking to the customer for time excess the defined limit, even if your goal is to provide better service. I'm not surprised for sudden drop of the phone call to CS after talking to them to some minute because I understand that they have a target to meet. (Not that I'm not annoyed, though. So usually the next step is to request to talk to a supervisor. :grin: )
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It also ignores numbers. You can't search for a file with "123" in the name. (facepalm)
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I can tell you don't work for Adobe.
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I'll bring up this story once again: one time, I had a mysterious case of vanishing hard drive space. Turns out, I had 700 GB of temp files.
700 GB. Given that I had a 1TB drive, 70% of my drive was taken up just by the Temp folder.
So yes, it's possible to have all of the free space on the drive taken up by temp files.
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and this frienmds is why i mount /tmp as tmpfs file type.
out of temp space? reboot!
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Doesn't help when it's your package manager swallowing /var/tmp whole...
Filed under: the joys of ebuilds on a subpar /var...
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gentoo? YICK!
that's worse than ArchLinux!
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Hey, Arch is fine!
...once you configure it, which, depending on you H4XX0R 5K1LL2, can take two days up to two years.
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you forgot about updating it.
it has a nasty habit of having critical packages stop working after updates.
not something i want to deal with thank you very much.
I'll run it to test something out in a VM but for long term primary usage give me something debian/ubuntu based
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Skype on Linux?
TIL.
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Yep, it's an older version, but it still works a treat
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It's not older - it's entirely different from Windows version, past or present.
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(As to Windows search: I've resorted to FIND as fallback, or a one-line batch with FOR /R and FIND.. In XP, you could at least switch back to W2K search functionality, which just did its job.)
My first thought when reading about (.*temp.*) was, if Shakespeare would have had a computer, nobody would miss The_Tempest.drama. (Because nobody would know about it, that is.)
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A lot of the time I'll just use
dir pattern /s /band scroll through the results, or add>list.txtto redirect the output to a text file.