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From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Function of .NextTrash
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.225207.13260@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 17 Apr 91 22:52:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.030222.4675@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <6420@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <6420@husc6.harvard.edu> clp@home.HarvardSq.COM (Charles L. Perkins) writes:
->In article <1991Apr17.030222.4675@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>  
->das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott) writes:
->> ........Does the NeXT use that as a temp directory, and perhaps
->> not remember to clean it up?
->In certain cases (e.g., when you Replace in during a copying operation), the
-> Workspace Manager will make a copy of the old, clobbered file for you.
->
->Although this is a nice feature is you occasionally bash things accidentally,
-> it does have some strange side-effects (like disk space going away if you
-> forget to periodically clean the trash).

I had similar problems, and also found myself a little too quick with
the command-r key combination- so I added some stuff to the 
/private/adm/daily script to dump the recycler every night.  It works
fine and I can recover stuff that I didn't mean to delete and not 
worry about disk space being wasted.  Here's what I added:

# Empty the Recycler(s) (Added by Jim 03/18/91)
echo 'emptying recycler(s) for jim, root, and auxdisk'
rm -r -f /jim/.NeXT/.NextTrash/*
rm -r -f /jim/.NeXT/.NextTrash/.[a-zA-Z]*
rm -r -f /.NeXT/.NextTrash/* 
rm -r -f /.NeXT/.NextTrash/.[a-zA-Z]*
rm -r -f /auxdisk/.NextTrash/* 
rm -r -f /auxdisk/.NextTrash/.[a-zA-Z]*


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