I scanned a hdd today and added to the photostructure library.
Files were copied over but there were a bunch of .tmp** folders created in the root of the ps library.
What are these folders ?
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Those .tmp folders are created, along with an example image copied into it, to verify that the library directory is writeable.
Several platforms (looking at you, macOS) will report that a directory is writeable when it actually isn’t.
I moved this topic to be a “bug” because these should really only be done once at startup, and properly cleaned up afterwards. The next version will clean up these .tmp dirs automatically and also only write-test on startup to verify permissions are reasonable.
Fyi: I am running windows 10.
Good to know that it is and identified issue and fix is on the way.
Thanks
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I have a bunch of .tmp-*** folders while running 1.0.0-beta.2 on Windows 10.
Are those directories all recent, or are they leftovers from a prior version?
They are dated 5/6/21.
I’m guessing I was running beta.1 at that time because beta.2 hadn’t come out yet.
The health check process in -beta.3 will remove any old .tmp-* directories left from prior versions.
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