Permanence of strange .tex file

[Stephan Witt]

Am 28.08.2021 um 14:36 schrieb Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Stephan Witt wrote:
> 
>> on quit LyX removes it’s temporary files and directories. This doesn’t
>> happen on sudden death of LyX. The question now is: is /tmp the location
>> for temporary files and directories?
>> 
>> On MacOS it’s not /tmp if you don’t set the path explicitly to /tmp.
> 
> Stephan,
> 
> Yes, LyX has always stored temporary files in /tmp (appropriately enough)
> which is a default directory in linux. And I've not had LyX crash in
> decades; it's closed properly.

Ok, I mentioned it because you said you’ve killed LyX. If you’ve quit LyX
regularly then the temporary files are removed and you cannot find them anymore.
The running process has this open and therefore you can see it. It’s on disk
present until you kill the background process and then the disk space is freed.

BR, Stephan