Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:05:29 -0500:
> another point: i dont think ive ever met anyone who even knew what the > Windows temp directory was or even how to find it. no one relies on > that directory to manage their files. Well, you've (virtually, anyway) met one now. Back when I ran on MS, I always made it a point of setting both TMP and TEMP to a dedicated temp partition, a practice that saved my *** at least once, during the IE4 betas when MS pulled a trick that had people ending up with IE's cache index crosslinked with multiple other files, costing folks various documents and/or drivers, etc (there were reports of both) in the process. Since I'd decided IE's cache was temp data and had it on my temp partition (along with TEMP/TMP), the only data it could corrupt was other temp files. =8^) Of course, the other advantage of a separate temp partition was that in the event of a crash, the only files generally open were temp files, thus, the only partition that generally had to be scandisked was the relatively small and quickly scanned temp partition. =8^) So such people are out there... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
