Yuliya -
That's how I set things on all the machines I take care of - if apps are correctly written, they should check before creating temp files to avoid filename collisions (or, if they can't handle that, generally they should ignore the TEMP variable and create tempfiles in their own private subfolder). Microsoft's default setup of having individual TEMP directories for each user does not, in my experience, avoid any problems; it simply makes it incredibly cumbersome to keep the disk from filling up with junk. If you stash all the temp files in one place, it's easy to clean them up once in a while. (You could do it if they were scattered, too, but somehow nobody ever does.)

I believe what he meant by the TEMP being set correctly is: does the directory it points to actually exist? If, as in your case, TEMP=C:\TEMP, then C:\TEMP had better exist and be a valid directory... otherwise, all bets are off as to where apps will create their temp files. (Personally, I always check to make sure that the folder exists, and fall back to creating my tempfiles in a subfolder of my app's folder, but not everyone does.)

----- Original Message ----
From: Yuliya Shulman <yuliyashulman@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:39:17 AM
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Re: Failing to create Firebird DB file













TEMP=C:\TEMP

TMP=C:\TEMP

TMPDIR=C:/TEMP



That's not what TEMP should be set to, is it? I

thought it was usuallt set to C:\DOCUME~1\ <user

name>\LOCALS~ 1\Temp, but I'll admit I haven't given it

much thought.



What should it be set to for Firebird to work

properly?



Yuliya



--- Alan McDonald <alan@.... au> wrote:

> if you issue SET a the prompt - what do you see? is

> the temp variable set

> incorrectly?

> Alan

>

>

>

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