[iyonix-support] Re: Waste bin utility

  • From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:56:49 +0200

In message <4ed9087253john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > Select once had a bin which intercepted all deletes, ...
> 
>> That would be a nice additional feature, but BlackHole2 seems to do
>> pretty much what I want as it stands.
> 
> Having ticked that option, I found the bin rapidly filling up with all
> manner of files I was unaware of.  Obviously lots of temporary files, etc
> were being created and discarded in the background.

Most of these are probably in Scrap.

> BlackHole allows you to specify paths from which you don't want to
> intercept deletes, but that means you have to know where they are all
> coming from, something it doesn't tell you (afia).  It would be far simpler
> if you could also do it the other way round, ie say which paths you do want
> to intercept, but it doesn't seem to.

If you exclude the Scrap directory !Boot.Resources.!Scrap, you will 
probably catch most of these temporary files.

Martin
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