rsync leaves partially downloaded files when cancelling a restore

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Sepiola - Online Backup Client

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rsync leaves partially downloaded files when cancelling a restore #78

Open dev-zero opened 8 years ago

dev-zero commented 8 years ago

When rsync does an up- or download, it does not write the file directly, but creates a file .originalname.RANDOMCHARS and renames it to originalname once successfully fully transferred.

When cancelling a restore with the Cygwin rsync, rsync leaves the temporary files around:

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Might have something to do with Cygwin and/or how Sepiola kills the process.

dev-zero commented 8 years ago

the problem is, that Windows (7) exhibits really strange behaviour wrt those files: a directory which contains such temporary files can not be deleted (generic permission denied) while the single files can be deleted, but re-appear when refreshing the directory listing in the Windows file explorer.