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Lazarus IDE creates lots of empty config dirs

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Wanting to test the 0.9.30 branch, I wanted to make a copy of my current ~/.config/lazarus/ directory. That's when I noticed lots and lots of directories similar to what is shown below. All these directories are empty.

 $ ls -l ~/.config/

---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------- drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-08 14:55 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29
drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-24 09:23 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - dunit2_fpc_textrunner.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2011-01-03 12:11 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - project1.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 11:51 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - tutoradmin.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-09 15:31 project1.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 10:03 tutoradmin.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 ...
---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------

* Why are they there?
* Why are they empty?
* Why the ugly directory names?

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

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Vincent Snijders
to Graeme Geldenhuys

2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys :

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Hi, Wanting to test the 0.9.30 branch, I wanted to make a copy of my current ~/.config/lazarus/ directory. That's when I noticed lots and lots of directories similar to what is shown below. All these directories are empty. ?$ ls -l ~/.config/ ---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------- drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-08 14:55 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-24 09:23 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - dunit2_fpc_textrunner.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2011-01-03 12:11 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - project1.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 11:51 Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 - tutoradmin.lpi drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-09 15:31 project1.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 drwxr-xr-x 2 2010-11-11 10:03 tutoradmin.lpi - Lazarus IDE v0.9.29 ... ---8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<----------- * Why are they there?

No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus

* Why the ugly directory names?

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.

Vincent

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Vincent Snijders
to Graeme Geldenhuys: Op 2011-01-05 10:09, Vincent Snijders het geskryf: Note the 'd' in first column of the…

2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys :

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Op 2011-01-05 10:09, Vincent Snijders het geskryf: >> >> * Why are they there? > No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and > Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus Note the 'd' in first column of the listing I provided. They are _not_ files but directories - with names from project files I used over time.

Yes, I read that correctly, but didn't write it correctly, I don't have such directories either.

Vincent

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Vincent Snijders: 2011/1/5 Graeme Geldenhuys : No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and…

Op 2011-01-05 10:09, Vincent Snijders het geskryf:

> > * Why are they there? No idea, I don't have such files in C:\Documents and Settings\vincent\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus

Note the 'd' in first column of the listing I provided. They are _not_ files but directories - with names from project files I used over time.

As you can see from the dates of those directories, they are fairly recent as well. So it's not like an old Lazarus IDE version leftovers.

> * Why the ugly directory names? Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.

:) I consider them ugly because they use a *.lpi filename, but aren't files
- in fact they are directories. I never name a directory 'myfile.txt'

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/

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