[X-Newbies] Temp files

[Philip J Robar]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Peter Saint James wrote:

> Somewhere on OS X there must be a folder for temp files. I can't  
> find it. Anyone know where it is?

There is the traditional UNIX /tmp directory which on the Mac, for  
reasons I won't go into here, is actually a link to /private/tmp.  
There is also /var/tmp which preserves files across reboots. Neither  
is visible from the Finder. (There may be ways to get around that, but  
I'm not familiar with them. Searching on macupdate.com for "invisible"  
will probably turn up something.)


Phil
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