Temp folder growing out of control

Craig73 · Post by **Craig73** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:02 pm

I'm using Wine 1.1.15 on Intrepid and when checking my disk space I noticed my temp folder in Wine (~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp) was 2.5GB. This reminded me that previously I noticed it was not getting cleaned out and was excessively big before as well (earlier versions of Wine, so not specific to this version/build).

Have others noticed this? Do I report this as a Wine bug? or investigate which program is perhaps not cleaning up after itself (if it should) and log it as a bug for that app?

(I realize Windows proper was bad for having a temp folder that needed to be cleaned up once and a while... but I never remember it being this bad / or I was more diligent)

Thoughts?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:09 pm

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Craig73 <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm using Wine 1.1.15 on Intrepid and when checking my disk space I noticed my temp folder in Wine (~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp) was 2.5GB. Â This reminded me that previously I noticed it was not getting cleaned out and was excessively big before as well (earlier versions of Wine, so not specific to this version/build).

Have others noticed this? Â Do I report this as a Wine bug? or investigate which program is perhaps not cleaning up after itself (if it should) and log it as a bug for that app?

(I realize Windows proper was bad for having a temp folder that needed to be cleaned up once and a while... but I never remember it being this bad / or I was more diligent)

Thoughts?

Probably apps not cleaning themselves up. Unless they do so on
windows, it's not a wine bug.

Just rm -rf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp/*

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-Austin

Craig73 · Post by **Craig73** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:18 pm

austin987 wrote: Just rm -rf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp/*

I believe being asked to do anything at the command prompt == bug

(really manual maintenance is a bug too...)

If the temp folder was mapped to the users or the systems temp folder (on Linux at least), would that get cleaned up automatically?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:22 pm

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Craig73 <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
Just rm -rf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp/*

I believe being asked to do anything at the command prompt == bug

So do it in your file manager.

(really manual maintenance is a bug too...)

A bug in the application, not wine.

If the temp folder was mapped to the users or the systems temp folder (on Linux at least), would that get cleaned up automatically?

Yeah, but could have other problems.

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-Austin