Bug#646705: Several dozen *.unison.tmp-bad scattered about my file syste
On 26/10/2011 14:17, clayton wrote:
> I have about 2G of files in my home directory, which I generally sync multiple times per week. Scattered throughout this 2G, dated
> throughout the life of this installation, are more then 40M of files named *.unison.tmp-bad, ie.
>
> ../.miro/.unison.sqlitedb.f98298fee8e203a125e7b612dd798b92.unison.tmp-bad
> ../.miro/.unison.sqlitedb.fcbc9c926749e3642f426dd093ae503c.unison.tmp-bad
> ../.miro/.unison.miro-downloader-log.f98298fee8e203a125e7b612dd798b92.unison.tmp-bad
>
> etc. Unison does not seem to be cleaning up after itself, and worse, these are hidden files that would fly under the radar and just
> accumulate, apparently without limit.
In my experience, those happen when something goes wrong during
synchronization. In the case of a file changed during synchronization
(which seems to be the case here), the user is warned... but they can
also appear when the connection is lost or when unison dies unexpectedly.
I don't think Unison should delete these files itself (without a
specific option, let's say), but maybe some warning when they are found
could be useful.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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