Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted
200801210005.29587.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on  Mon, 21 Jan
2008 00:05:29 -0500:

> another point: i dont think ive ever met anyone who even knew what the
> Windows temp directory was or even how to find it.  no one relies on
> that directory to manage their files.

Well, you've (virtually, anyway) met one now.

Back when I ran on MS, I always made it a point of setting both TMP and 
TEMP to a dedicated temp partition, a practice that saved my *** at least 
once, during the IE4 betas when MS pulled a trick that had people ending 
up with IE's cache index crosslinked with multiple other files, costing 
folks various documents and/or drivers, etc (there were reports of both) 
in the process.  Since I'd decided IE's cache was temp data and had it on 
my temp partition (along with TEMP/TMP), the only data it could corrupt 
was other temp files. =8^)

Of course, the other advantage of a separate temp partition was that in 
the event of a crash, the only files generally open were temp files, 
thus, the only partition that generally had to be scandisked was the 
relatively small and quickly scanned temp partition. =8^)

So such people are out there...

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