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Is there a way to programmatically (not manually) delete the temporary directories that are created in MXTEMPDIR?

April 26, 2017delete Directories programmatically Temporary

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Is there a way to programmatically (not manually) delete the temporary directories that are created in MXTEMPDIR?

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To remove the temp directory, you first need to clear it out (e.g. delete mx/*, where is the process id for the Fire process). Then you need to remove the directory itself. There is not a Fire command to do this, so you need to make a system call. For example, on a Windows NT machine, you would do this::CMD /C rmdir %MXTEMPDIR%\mx NOTE: You cannot delete the temporary files or directories for the currently executing process. So, this would need to be in the startup sequence for an application. It would look for all mx directories under the $MXTEMPDIR directory (using the dir command), and then delete them all. It would not be able to delete the temporary files or directories for any currently executing Fire processes.