[Qgis-user] temporary files folder for processing

[Victor Olaya]

The Processing section in the manual is your friend:

"If you do not enter any filename, the result will be saved as a
temporary file and in the corresponding default file format, and will
be deleted once you exit QGIS (take care with that in case you save
your project and it contains temporary layers).

You can set a default folder for output data objects. Go to the
configuration dialog (you can open it from the Processing menu), and
in the General group you will find a parameter named Output folder.
This output folder is used as the default path in case you type just a
filename with no path (i.e. myfile.shp) when executing an algorithm."


2013/11/7 Jesus Munoz Serrano <jesusmunozserrano at gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> I don't know where does QGIS store my processing output layers anymore. They
> were being stored in my application folder at the start (I am using mac OS X
> 10.8) which was a bit inconvenient so I decided to change it. I created a
> new path in processing > options and configuration > general > output
> folder.
>
> The problem is that the output path shown now is different to the one I
> created. If I click the browser button, the window for selecting the
> directory will show the right path but in the processing options windows >
> general the path shown is different. It is as follows:
>
> /var/folders/k8/1gjgs_cn6rv4blrm7s5pjyr80000gn/T/processing
>
> I played around a little bit with some algorithms to check if my changes
> were working and the layers created are indeed lost. Opening the layer
> properties dialog, the source of the layer is:
>
> /var/folders/k8/1gjgs_cn6rv4blrm7s5pjyr80000gn/T/processing/c00e7a3e4ec64b1fa37d5f47b6d8b5b7/CLIPS.shp
>
> so it is in fact stored where the processing options dialog tells me, but it
> is the wrong place. Also, I tried to locate this folder in my computer and
> it was impossible to find.
>
> Is this a bug? Does anybody know how to solve it?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesus
>
>
>
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