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[Scott Severance <883628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #541616
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541616

** Also affects: file-roller via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541616
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883628

Title:
  File Roller temp files and directories are created in non-optimal
  place

Status in File Roller:
  Unknown
Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  File Roller (including the latest version, 3.2.1) uses the ~/.cache directory for its temporary files directories, e. g.:
  ~/.cache/.fr-a12bc3

  It creates these temporary folders with files when a user looks
  through the archive and double-clicks on any file inside to view it.

  If File Roller exits unexpectedly, these temp files can only be
  removed manually.

  As it can be learned from bug #245716, some times ago File Roller was
  even more ugly and created its temp directories directly in user home
  directory.

  It would be much more effective to use /tmp directory for ALL the temp files and folders for two reasons:
  1) /tmp directory gets cleaned on every reboot;
  2) some people use tmpfs for /tmp directory, so it can be much faster.

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