Temporary Directories

[C.W. Betts]

I’m wondering if Wine has some way of marking temporary directories and/or files as such.

I’m mainly asking because OS X has APIs to mark directories (and maybe files) excluded from backup from their Time Machine software.  And temporary directories are often modified a lot, making backups of them taking awhile to complete.

[Vincent Povirk]

I'm not sure it would be accurate to report any of Wine's directories
as temporary, since they are not really volatile storage on Windows.
Rumor has it that some apps rely on their "temporary" files being
preserved across reboots.

For Time Machine, this would mean that the files wouldn't be restored,
and some apps could be broken by a backup/restore.

[Stefan Dösinger]

I have my temporary stuff (global and user) in Z:\\tmp, which is shmfs, and
never had any issue with this.
Am 05.02.2014 06:40 schrieb "Vincent Povirk" <madewokherd(a)gmail.com>:
> I'm not sure it would be accurate to report any of Wine's directories
> as temporary, since they are not really volatile storage on Windows.
> Rumor has it that some apps rely on their "temporary" files being
> preserved across reboots.
>
> For Time Machine, this would mean that the files wouldn't be restored,
> and some apps could be broken by a backup/restore.