OSX /tmp garbage collection again

[pfile]

Juan, i thought that you were going to touch all the PI swp files in /tmp periodically to avoid OSX's /tmp garbage collection from destroying all the swp files?

i got a new macbook and true to form i've left PI 1.8RC7 running for days on one of the desktops. thankfully i had saved my project before i let it go idle, but due to OCD issues i just tried to save the project again and found that all the swp files were indeed gone. i had forgotten to hack the cron script to increase the amount of time files can be idle before they are deleted...

rob

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Rob,

Unfortunately, this is still not implemented in RC7. It is not so easy to do properly without any impact on performance. This feature will be included in the final 1.8.0 release.

[edd]

I believe you can tell OS X to change its behaviour fairly easily. If you look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf you'll see the default settings, and you can modify these by editing (making if necessary) /etc/periodic.conf.local
The relevant stuff is controlled by these variables

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daily_clean_tmps_days="3"                               # If not accessed for
daily_clean_tmps_ignore=".X*-lock .X11-unix .ICE-unix .font-unix .XIM-unix"
daily_clean_tmps_ignore="$daily_clean_tmps_ignore quota.user quota.group"You could override daily_clean_tmps_days or add PixInsight's swap file extension to daily_clean_tmps_ignore in the style of the second line.

[Juan Conejero]

Nice finding!

In your example, something like this should work:

daily_clean_tmps_ignore=".X*-lock .X11-unix .ICE-unix .font-unix .XIM-unix ~PI64~*"

[pfile]

yeah i had done those hacks previously but as i explained i got a new machine and forgot to do it...

it's not a problem for 'advanced' users to get around this issue but for average users they are going to be seriously surprised when the rug gets pulled out from under PI.

i know you like orthogonality but there are better places to store the temp files in OSX where they will not be deleted.