From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-persist files in /tmp
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:35:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868rj0hx2h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu1ovlsn.fsf@localhost>
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> for some reason, I am now getting many (tens) directories of the form
>> org-persist-NNNNNN in /tmp. These seem to include an index file and a
>> cache type sub-directory structure. Why are these there and does
>> anything clean them up?
>>
>> I have nothing related to org-persist in my configuration that I can
>> see.
>
> If you run something like make test or emacs -Q + org, it is expected.
> These are throwaway directories used by org-persist for emacs -Q.
>
> Do we need to care about cleaning up /tmp?
Probably not - at least not on most modern Linux systems as these tend
to have a systemd task which will clean up the temp directories on
reboot. You can usually tweak the settings for systemd-tempfiles if you
want to modify when and how often temporary files are cleaned up.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-22 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-21 13:18 org-persist files in /tmp Fraga, Eric
2022-12-21 15:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-21 15:59 ` Fraga, Eric
2022-12-21 16:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-21 17:18 ` William Denton
2022-12-21 18:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-22 4:30 ` Greg Minshall
2022-12-22 12:34 ` Ruijie Yu via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-12-22 14:41 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-22 15:45 ` Tim Cross
2022-12-22 16:07 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-23 6:35 ` tomas
2022-12-23 14:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-23 15:19 ` tomas
2022-12-25 9:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-25 9:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-25 11:37 ` tomas
2022-12-25 9:28 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-25 9:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-22 4:35 ` Tim Cross [this message]
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