If you need to get rid of the files, and you don't to go through the file manager, there is a command line solution. Please note that you should NOT use this if you are unfamiliar with the windows command line, and there's the potential it may mess up your computer. If you choose to use this, I am not responsible for any problems it might cause. It would also be a good idea to stop all clients before running this.
- Hit [Windows-Key]-R This will bring up the run dialog
- Type cmd and hit enter
- Navigate to the Foldit directory using the cd command. If you installed to the default directory (C:\Foldit) then you can get there by typing *cd \Foldit\puzzles* . If this step fails, or you cant locate your Foldit installation, do not continue.
- Now type del *.tmp /s
This should get rid of all the tmp files for all puzzles in all tracks.
When will the fix for this be released? An actual date would be nice, not just "… in the next 'devprev' release".
Update released: http://fold.it/portal/node/993109
Please re-open this if you still have issues in devprev.
Again, thanks to everyone who uses the devprev client to catch these bad bugs.
Without your thorough testing across all three platforms, these nasty bugs wouldn't get caught until they reached main!
We appreciate you all "taking it for the team" and apologize for how particularly nasty this bug turned out to be for many of you.
25 minutes of running multiple clients with NO added tmp files, i.e. my concern is fixed. Foldit partition back to 10 gigs and defragged. Should be fine for the duration, at least until next devprev release..
Thanks guys, all of you. But I am wondering what you did with the tmp files???
I am seeing reductions in free space and increases in used space, but will assume at least for the moment that what I am seeing might be quick saves. Assuming this behaves as it always has in the past, I should have no difficulty with it.
Over-night space used went from 2.28 gigs ( after complete clean-up of all .tmp files) to present value of 2.32 gigs. I'm pretty sure that .04 difference is around 40 MBs and a utterly huge improvement over the previous devprev which would have increased by nearly 2 gigs by this time.
Over-night space used went from 2.28 gigs ( after complete clean-up of all .tmp files) to present value of 2.32 gigs. I'm pretty sure that .04 difference is around 40 MBs and a utterly huge improvement over the previous devprev which would have increased by nearly 2 gigs by this time.
