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lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

WTH is mldonkey doing with it's temp files?!

It's something totally completely incomprehensible to me.

I reintalled Arch a while ago. Made a backup of the old ~/.mldonkey. Now I retored them to where they belong.

$ mv ~/backup/mldonkey/donkey.ini   ~/.mldonkey/
$ mv ~/backup/mldonkey/stat*  ~/.mldonkey/
$ mv ~/backup/mldonkey/temp/*  ~/.mldonkey/temp/

Then I started mldonkey with the telnet interface. I saw the old download which was not completed. I added a new one to download. The new one was small and quickly got done. Here comes the nuts:

$ ls ~/.mldonkey/incoming/files/  #WTF?! Nothing?
$ ls ~/backup/mldonkey/incoming/files/  #WTH?!
Nuts.cue

I also discovered the temp files all went to ~/backup/mldonkey/temp/, not ~/.mldonkey/temp.
That is damn strange! I killed the mldonkey daemon. mv ~/.mldonkey ~/Nuts so ~/.mldonkey doesn't even exist now!
Fire up mldonkey again. It's working. like nothing happened. All it's doing it take ~/backup/mldonkey as if it were ~/.mldonkey.

How is this possible? It's acting like a smart ass which I definitely hate!

I'm in serious faint now. Seriously.

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djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: WTH is mldonkey doing with it's temp files?!

Hello lolilolicon!

If you install now a new one, can mldonkey work so ? If yes, you can compare them (older-newer one), with vim ~/backup/mldonkey -c 'vert diffsplit ~/,mldonkey' or with your favourite diff application.

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