0003941: bad tmp dir due to copied settings

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003941	Slicer4	Core: Base Code	public	2015-01-15 02:49	2017-06-15 10:56

Reporter	pieper	Assigned To	jcfr
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Platform	mac	OS		OS Version
Product Version	Slicer 4.4.0
Target Version		Fixed in Version

Summary	0003941: bad tmp dir due to copied settings
Description	A user got a new mac and copied her home directory. This brought over the .config file that includes the slicer settings. As a result her slicer.app.temporaryPath was pointing to a directory that did not exist on the new mac. Creating the directory also did not work. This apparently has something to do with the way mac allocates the names of user-specific tmp directories. http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qdir.html#tempPath
Tags	help-wanted

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-01-15 02:49	pieper	New Issue
2015-01-15 02:49	pieper	Status	new => assigned
2015-01-15 02:49	pieper	Assigned To	=> jcfr
2015-01-15 02:53	pieper	Note Added: 0012885
2015-10-06 22:43	jcfr	Status	assigned => acknowledged
2015-10-06 22:44	jcfr	Tag Attached: help-wanted
2017-06-15 10:56	lassoan	Relationship added	duplicate of 0004340
2017-06-15 10:56	lassoan	Status	acknowledged => closed
2017-06-15 10:56	lassoan	Resolution	open => duplicate

pieper 2015-01-15 02:53 administrator ~0012885	My suggested fix for this is to detect the case where the temporaryPath cannot be written to. Then we can prompt the user with a dialog warning. One option would be to just clear the settings.