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a temporary folder or temporary directory is a directory used to hold temporary files. Many operating systems and some software automatically delete the contents of such directories at boot-up or at regular intervals.

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When does System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") return "c:\temp"

Just curious as to when System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") returns "c:\temp". According to the java.io.File Java Docs- The default temporary-file directory is specified by the system property java.io.tmpdir. On UNIX systems the default value of…
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Change temporary directory

I am using R on windows and need to change the temporary directory where tmp files are stored. I checked a few answers, here, in R-help, etc., but no one is working. Some links I tried: here, here, and here. After trying those answers (I have to…
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Making a temporary dir for unpacking a zipfile into

I have a script that checks a zipfile containing a number of matching PDF+textfiles. I want to unpack, or somehow read the textfiles from the zipfile, and just pick out some information from the textfile to see that the file version is correct. I…
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Deleting py.test tmpdir directory after successful test case

I'm running tests that create a lot of large files during execution. For this purpose I would like to delete the tmpdir directory if a test has passed. But if a test fails the contents of tmpdir should be left unchanged. I know how to determine the…
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Temporary directory persist across program runs

I need a temporary directory, but I want full control over its creation and deletion. I will use this directory to place git repositories which I want to monitor for new commits, so I need to store them somewhere permanently. Therefore I want to…
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Junit cannot delete @TempDir with file created by Spark Structured Streaming

I created an integration test for my pipeline to check if the right CSV file is generated: class CsvBatchSinkTest { @RegisterExtension static SparkExtension spark = new SparkExtension(); @TempDir static Path directory; //this…
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Permission Denied When Writing File to Default Temp Directory

My program does some fairly intensive operations, so I use a scratch file in order to speed things up. I use the following Java code: File scratchFile = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + "WCCTempFile.tmp"); if (!scratchFile.exists()) …
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How to configure root for temp dirs in Java

We run code which does the standard for creating a temp directory: import java.nio.file.Files; And then: tmp = Files.createTempDirectory("ourprefix-"); This, effectively, creates the directories under /tmp/ so that we get things like…
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Rscript running trouble with TMPDIR via plink -ssh on Windows

I want to create my own variant of makePSOCKcluster and newPSOCKnode using ssh connection via plink. So, I rewrite code if (machine != "localhost") { rshcmd <- getClusterOption("rshcmd", options) user <- getClusterOption("user",…
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Files.createTempDirectory("") throws NullPointerException

When I call Files.createTempDirectory("") I get the below exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.nio.fs.WindowsSecurityDescriptor.fromAttribute(WindowsSecurityDescriptor.java:353) at…
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How to solve java.security.AccessControlException?

I am trying to access client's temp directory through my applet on my web project. When I run the applet by itself, it gets the tempdir with no problem. When I try to get it on my project using javascript and calling the applet method, I am having…
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Download .rds from google drive using download.file()

I am still having trouble getting a large file (.rds) from google drive into R. The purpose is to pull the rds file from drive, for use in an Rshiny.app. If I use library(googledrive) temp <- tempfile(fileext = ".rds") dl <- drive_download( …
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Change C# compile directory (Class Library & WPF; not ASP.NET)?

I'm running a Ramdisk in Windows 7. I've modified some web.config files to noticeably improve the compilation times of my ASP.NET solutions. I've got a solution with about 40 WPF and Class Library projects, and it hasn't improved when I launch…
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How to use Junit 5's TempDir with Kotlin?

I want to convert the following (working) java test to Kotlin: package my.project; import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions; import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir; import java.io.File; import…
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IIS 6+ASP.NET - many temp files generated

I have a ASP.NET + some .NET web-services running on IIS 6 (win 2003 server). The issue is that IIS is generating a lot (!) of files in "c:\WINDOWS\Temp" directory. a lot of files means thousands of files, which get to more than 3G of size so…
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