Re: Q Re !Scrap

In article <4de154a1acUCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Williams (News) <UCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <f4f451e14d%Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Quoting John Williams thus:)

> > > Pic_Index uses scrap to save loading time by storing some
> > > ready-processed stuff there.

Doom+ does the same, and I expect there are others as well.

> > Shouldn't that be stored in Choices?

No.

> But it's not a choice, it /is/ scrap.

Not exactly. We could perhaps benefit from a third place to store
scrap-like files that need to be kept, so that a clearout of !Scrap
won't lose them. Perhaps a Temp dir that can be kept either within
!Boot or any where else.

An alternative would be for one of our bright coders to write a small
utility to selectively clear the scrapdir(s), excluding known dirs that
it knows have contents that need to be preserved and allowing others to
be added to the exclusions list (or removed from it) as necessary.

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