On 24-Apr-07, at 7:52 PM, Craig A. Finseth wrote: >> I'm still trying to sort out exactly when it happens, but >> folderItem.delete often does nothing. > >> I think it's whenever I've had a stream open on the file, even if I >> close the stream and set the stream variable to nil, I can't delete >> the file. > >> This is 2K7r2 on Intel OS X 10.4.9. > > Under Unix, a file remains in existance until all references to it > (including > streams) are closed.
Yes. Be very aware that you CAN rm a file even when you are writing to it and then it's damned hard to do anything as the file may just grow and grow but you cannot access it any longer. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
