Here are two other ideas for a workaround for "some cleanup program purged some files in my cache area".
The rearguard hack: - make sure extracted files get the timestamp of extraction, not the timestamp recorded in the zip archive - add a dummy file, say REARGUARD.txt, at the top of the cache area - extract it as the first file (so that it becomes the oldest extracted file) - at packed executable startup, check that REARGUARD.txt exists, otherwise re-extract all files Different location for the cache area: - when the packed executable foo.exe is installed as /some/path/foo.exe, extract to /some/path/foo.unpacked if this directory can be created - otherwise fall back to current behaviour, ie. extract to $TMP/par-USER - I'm not sure about the security implications Cheers, Roderich
