"R. Diez" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all:
Hi, > One of the issues I am facing is that Tramp is leaving behind temporary files > on the remote server like this: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2025-08-10 11:02 tmp1eghjG > > You may not realise that Tramp is littering the disk that way, and when you > (or some other sysadmin) realise about those orphaned files next month, such > filenames make it hard to know exactly was caused the problem and what file > it was related to. Are you sure it comes from Tramp? Tramp temporary file names always start with "tramp.", see tramp-temp-name-prefix. > I suggest a change in Tramp's temporary file naming policy. For a file like: > > myfile.txt > > I suggest a temporary filename like: > > myfile.txt.EmacsTrampTmp1eghjG That wouldn't be possible. An extension, like ".txt", must be kept. > Regards, > rdiez Best regards, Michael.
