Posted by Nicholas Sherlock on 02/12/06 02:31

Jasen Betts wrote:
> if it's a *nix server make a link instread of a copy of the file it's much
> faster, and uses much less disk space.

The Symlink() command? Awesome!

> Store the names and delete any that have been sitting there for more than 30
> seconds, or spawn a background script that sleeps for 30 seconds and then
> deletes the copy.
>
> With unix the download will continue even after the file is no longer present
> windows will ( I think) give an error and not delete the file so you'd have
> to find a way to detect that, sleep again, and retry.

I'm on Unix. Thanks, this is an excellent solution.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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