https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453050
--- Comment #2 from sequel.county...@icloud.com --- (In reply to Rob from comment #1) > The .solved and .cancel files are REALLY critical for external > astrometry.net. This is not a bug if you are referring to those two file > types. The external program astromety.net uses those files to determine > that it should shut itself down. (I already use a kill command but that is > not enough) If those files are not created and left in place, external > astrometry.net will keep running, possibly with multiple processes of > astrometry-engine, and will take up lots of cpu time and memory while they > continue to try and solve when the image was already solved or aborted. Yes > I definitely intended to make stellarsolver delete all the other temporary > files that were created both by stellarsolver and other external processes > such as astap and astrometry.net, but the solved and cancel files have to > stick around. The good news is that they are basically empty files. I also > made the latest version of stellarsolver share solved and cancel files when > doing a parallel solve so it should make far fewer files now. But I can't > delete those files unfortunately. I can't even delete them later on a timer > since we have no idea when the astrometry engine will shut down. > > If you are referring to another type of file, such as a fits file or a > config file, then it might have been a bug. I did do some revisions to the > temporary file deletion code and related issues in the latest version of > stellarsolver, so please check to see if that has been resolved if that is > the case. I’ve just checked the code and the lines which I believe do the delete are still there. The files that I believe need deleting are the .fits files rather than these others you are on about. The code is in align.cpp and has a comment saying Remove temporary FITS file left before by solver. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
