>>>>>Nope - in this case you would have other applications data there too.
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>>>>Then your application is badly planned. Every application should have some maintaince function, where you can reindex and clean up once in a while.
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>>>How would you clean after yourself if you're sharing the temp folder with other applications?
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>>By NEVER sharing a temp folder. I have one separate temp per application I create.
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>>>Also, I don't see why re-index and maintenance comes into this topic at all.
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>>You mentioned deleting "dead" temp files, which I think should be taken care of by a separate maintainance module. In my applications this maintainance module also has options for recreating indexes and similar stuff, which only should be done very rarely.
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>By NEVER sharing a temp folder. I have one separate temp per application I create.
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>So, what prompted you to ask the original question then if you already knew the answer?

First of all, I did not ask you. And secondly I asked because I was convinced that Lucien was on the wrong track, and wante to guide him the right way.