Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes:
> "Fraga, Eric" <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> for some reason, I am now getting many (tens) directories of the form >> org-persist-NNNNNN in /tmp. These seem to include an index file and a >> cache type sub-directory structure. Why are these there and does >> anything clean them up? >> >> I have nothing related to org-persist in my configuration that I can >> see. > > If you run something like make test or emacs -Q + org, it is expected. > These are throwaway directories used by org-persist for emacs -Q. > > Do we need to care about cleaning up /tmp? Probably not - at least not on most modern Linux systems as these tend to have a systemd task which will clean up the temp directories on reboot. You can usually tweak the settings for systemd-tempfiles if you want to modify when and how often temporary files are cleaned up.
