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Started 4 years ago by rb2k_
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rb2k_
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I don't know if it can really be described as a bug, but oneswarm places thousands of files in my %temp% directory (windows).

Mostly thumbnails for the videos, sometimes also empty .xml files and persisted javabeans

osf2f_59601friends:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.7.0-ea" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
<array class="edu.washington.cs.oneswarm.f2f.friends.FriendBean" length="15">

It's kind of a pain in the butt to have all of those files in there as it makes it virtually implossible to look for other temporary files

Posted 4 years ago #
EricJ2190
Member

I get the same. There were literally thousands of them. Deleting them seemed not to cause any problems, but I don't know if they will come back.

Posted 4 years ago #
yoship1
Member

I use Ccleaner to remove cookies and temp files, the scaning process takes 10 times longer(!), just because those files.... can't OneSwarm create a folder for those files just to make it easier for everyone? i would "exclude" the map in CC to make the scan normal if this was possible.

can the developers/admins do something about this?

Posted 4 years ago #
airship
Member

I found over 4gbyte of temporary files today in my temporary folder, so yes, there is a problem with OneSwarm not deleting files.

The files are created by OneSwarm and their names are like:

osf2f_1234567890123456789friends
1234d5679f0_001.png
oneswarm_1234567890123456789.xml
oneswarm_1234567890123456789.torrent
...and maybe some other java-files, but not that many of them (probably leftovers when upgrading)

A cleanup-task that removes temporary files at startup/shutdown could really help out for people that never visit their temporary folder.

Until this gets fixed you can all visit your windows temp folder by writing %temp% in a normal file folder. It should be safe to delete all files in your temp folder that look similar to the ones I pasted above

Posted 4 years ago #
piatek
Administrator

Thanks for the reports everyone. This seems like a platform specific issue that we'll plan to fix in a future update.

Posted 4 years ago #
DanyaelX
Member

Nope it fills my /tmp with crap as well.

osf2f_998421543286799048friends is one example of a file, and they are all 10.2kb large. very annoying since it eats free hardrive memmory on my / at a rate of 5-10mb per hour forcing me to reboot my computer every 4 days. Not fun. I dont like to restart my computer unless I absolutely have to.

and I run Xubuntu latest with Sun Java.

Posted 4 years ago #
yoship1
Member

deleted those files now, had 6503 of them.... but they might return i guess

Posted 4 years ago #
DanyaelX
Member

I didt that once, didnt help the files did go away but teh space they occupied stayed occupied since OneSwarm was using these files (the only explanation I have for it) they did go away when I rebooted the computer.

Posted 4 years ago #
airship
Member

Bumb

Still have a lot of files being created in my windows folder %temp%

Now with communityservers you also get those "invite-files" which maybe are not big, but still there, and not being removed when shutting down.

I think this is a bug that looks bad on OneSwarm, and I think these temp-files (which seem to be backup copies of the friend list) are now not that important "as before". Now when community servers are around it is very easy to get a new list of friends.

I want to be able to recommend OneSwarm to people without feeling that the software is filling up their computer with a gigabyte of temporary files (after only a week of use)

OneSwarm is still great and has proven it can deliver if only more people got connected.. and if they dont share their entire drive in one swarm (another known bug). Feel the "temp-bug" and the "hide-swarm-creation-in-favour-of-watch-directory" should be prioritized... new features could wait if time is scarse ;)

Posted 3 years ago #
isdal
Administrator

Found a bug that caused the tmp file to not be removed if the move command failed and the file was copied instead. This fix will be pushed out in the next dev update. Let me know if you still get temp files after the next update.

Posted 3 years ago #

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