We have a Java application that includes components that run as SYSTEM on Windows machines. On Windows 7 x64, one component fails when trying to unpack the jnidispatch library: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Failed to create temporary file for jnidispatch library: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specifi...
Without purchasing someone elses software, how can I as a software engineer, delete index.dat? What OS Voodoo hoops do I have to jump through to accomplish the simple deletion of a single file on my own computer? I have windows Vista. ...
Possible Duplicate: Storing a file in the users directory in cross-platform Java I am working on a java project and the java application ends up making some .class files. Currently, these files are stored inside a projects directory inside the main application directory. Some people who run the application on a network with a ...
I'm writing an application with a dBASE database file in Borland Delphi 7. Note: I think this question is file-security related and you can forget the dBASE thing (consider it as a TXT file) in this question. The database must be accessed just by the application. Then it must be encrypted. Unfortunately dBASE doesn't support any passwo...
My team is currently developing a resume-parser for a website. Our parser will translate and format the resume into the industry-standard HR-XML. The website will then take the HR-XML-formatted information and pre-populate editable fields so the user can finalize his/her profile on the website. What would be the best way to port the H...
My rails application runs on a Ubuntu server machine. I need to create temporary files in order to "feed" them to a second, independent app (I'll be using rake tasks for this, in case this information is needed) My question is: what is the best way of creating temporary fields on a rails application? Since I'm in ubuntu, I could creat...
I'm using ReSharper 4.5 to execute my MSTest unit tests in VS2008. With each test run, it's creating files in this path: testProjectFolder\bin\Debug\TestResults How can I clean/delete those files from within Visual Studio? If I can't delete them from within Visual Studio, when can I expect them to be removed? EDIT: I see Visual Stu...
If I create some file using Path.GetTempPath() - does it automatically get deleted at some stage, or is it up to me to delete it? ...
Hi, regarding file uploads, I have a form through which I upload a file, I get the $temp_name = $_FILES['name']['temp_name'] and store it in a variable. Can I then use that variable again inside move_uploaded_file("$temp_name","$location") inside another form. Will this work?? When we upload a file, there is a temp location created o...
I'm watching a directory using FileSystemWatcher. When a file is copied into that directory - my watcher grabs it and performs multiple actions with it. My problem is that when a Microsoft Office file is opened, a temporary file is created in the watched directory. I can't find a way to ignore these files. Though the temporary file na...
I need a fresh temporary directory to do some work in a shell script. When the work is done (or if I kill the job midway), I want the script to change back to the old working directory and wipe out the temporary one. In Ruby, it might look like this: require 'tmpdir' Dir.mktmpdir 'my_build' do |temp_dir| puts "Temporary workspace is ...
I've got a Python program that needs to create a named temporary file which will be opened and closed a couple times over the course of the program, and should be deleted when the program exits. Unfortunately, none of the options in tempfile seem to work: TemporaryFile doesn't have a visible name NamedTemporaryFile creates a file-like...
Hello! I am writing a WIX installer and I have a following requirement: During installation, I need to pass an absolute path to a file (lets call it A) included in my installer to a COM component, which already exists on the hard drive and is a part of another program. I have already written an appropriate Custom Action which expects a ...
I recently wrote a script which queries PyPI and downloads a package; however, the package gets downloaded to a user defined folder. I`d like to modify the script in such a way that my downloaded files go into a temporary folder, if the folder is not specified. The temporary-files folder in *nix machines is "/tmp" ; would there be any ...
Hi, I have some problems to delete temporary folder and files on my server when users not finish some action in webpages and quit to other webpages. Initialy at Page Load folders are created to allow the user to load files.I have tried implementing destruction during Idisposable without success. Could someone point the best method to del...
I have a Python script (running inside another application) which generates a bunch of temporary images. I then use subprocess to launch an application to view these. When the image-viewing process exists, I want to remove the temporary images. I can't do this from Python, as the Python process may have exited before the subprocess com...
Question: I have an ASP.NET application which creates temporary PDF files (for the user to download). Now, many users over many days can create many PDFs, which take much disk space. What's the best way to schedule deletion of files older than 1 day/ 8 hours ? Preferably in the asp.net application itselfs... ...
I use intermediate files in my Makefile, however make prints out the rm command that it uses to delete them all afterwards. How do I hide this print statement? ...
How to create a file in Windows that would have attributes FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY and FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE set using Java? I do want my file to be just in-memory file. To precise: delete-on-exit mechanism does not satisfy me, because I want to avoid situation, when some data leaves on disk in case, for example, application crash...
I have this: require 'tempfile' t = Tempfile.new('test-data') t.open t.sync = true t << "apples" t.puts "bananas" puts "contents are [#{t.read}] (#{t.size} bytes)" t.close This prints: contents are [] (14 bytes) Why aren't the contents actually shown? I'm on Ruby 1.9.2. ...