.Soulseek.nnnnnnnnn files

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Submitted by dserodio on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 07:20
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Soulseek General Discussion

I have a bunch of .Soulseek.nnnnnnnnn files in my home directory (eg. .Soulseek.1361654771973, .Soulseek.1361663549576). Are these safe to delete? If they are temp files, shouldn't they be created in /tmp ?

I'm using SoulseekQT build 2013.2.26 on OS X.

Regards,
Daniel Serodio

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 14:39.

They're backups of the client configuration file in case the latest copy becomes corrupted somehow. I wouldn't recommend deleting them, as the latest one is your main configuration file, and they'll just be re-generated eventually.

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 14:52.

How many max .dat files will be generated? I ask because each of mine is like 30MB and I have at least 5 so far - can there be a cap on them so they don't eventually take up 5GB in total backups? :)

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 14:58.

I believe 4 should be the upper limit... not sure how you ended up with 5. Perhaps one of them doesn't have the exact same prefix?

Submitted by vivianx on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 06:52.

The files just keep on piling up. I logged on and quit 7 times just now and got 7 new .Soulseek.<nnnnnnnnn> files. OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 with the latest build.

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 20:52.

That's a bona fide bug, thanks for drawing my attention to it. The client appears not to find the older configuration files when it tries to remove them since they're hidden, which very likely means this problem affects the Linux builds as well. This will be fixed in future builds, and you can use this one in the interim:

http://www.slsknet.org/SoulseekQt/Mac/SoulseekQt-2013-3-23.dmg

Thanks, Nir

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 20:50.

Even simpler answer: I can't count. I had 4, not 5. Sorry :)