Never put a temporary file anywhere other than the temp folder.never put something in the temp folder I want to keep because it’s like a trashcan – it gets emptied regularly.It’s kind of like an ‘in’ tray, or a ‘working’ tray, it’s right there, temporary, available always. It’s easily accessible so I don’t need to navigate down and up folders to find the files I’m after. The advantage of a temp folder is that when I go to upload the files, I always know where they are. When I was finished I put the final result where I needed it to be and I no longer need these working files. The point is these are all temporary files that I was working with. Under that are some other pdf files, I was probably merging and playing with them before I shared them with someone.Next are some keynote slides that I was converting to another format, probably to share with someone.I was probably saving them to Google Drive and I wanted to edit or compress them or change their names before I uploaded them, so they went via the tmp folder.

I needed to compress them before I uploaded them, so they went via my tmp folder.

Up the top of some screenshots that I was uploading for my previous Macintoshhowto web article on Google Keep.

Here’s what is currently in my tmp folder: My tmp folder It was a place where anyone or any app could put anything that was temporary.

Read on… it’s better than it sounds.īack in the old days before we had Mac OS and Windows, most computers had a folder called /tmp. I can easily find what I need, but it doesn’t clutter other places up. I have an easily accessible folder, available from anywhere, where I throw anything that is temporary.

I’ve been doing this for years, but I’ve never written an article about it.

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