Guenter Grau

"latest" downloads file with "old", installer complains about version

I don't remember that I've seen such a warning. The initial one I might have missed because I might have started lives at <2.5G. My expectation of where the tmpdir should be (/local/livestmp or /tmp/livestmp) versus where it has been (~/livestmp) was different - a matter of permanent over-utilization of these tiny 2.5" disks...I languish for a 16TB drive ;-) What happened next is that I tried to find options to change brightness/contrast/denoise and apparently I started a conversion by accident (was...

Thanks for the quick feedback! Unfortunately I'm still a bit busy to sort out >100k files ;) I should mention that ext4magic is a great tool to recover files which you would normally consider lost. I think your suggestion does provide enough safety, because there are several dangerous points. If a user really wants to trash his homedir with temporary files, he should actively set it and get a warning. A safe default would be ~/livestmp and in case it's missing upon first access the program can simply...

I just inspected the ~/.lives file. I have been running into some crashes and a "disk full" on a prior version, and I believe that I have seen this file to be quite small (but not empty). Right now it is much bigger and actually contains the answer, the file is attached. The tempfir section points to my homedir instead of the livestmp link inside :-S I don't know if the case of disk full could leave behind a damaged .lives file which has been "recovered" with defaults? In any case, the tmpdir should...

Clean up Diskspace amok run in 2.10.2