SearchWare Solutions has released an update to Eradicator. This intimidating sounding, yet helpful application helps you to manage the invisible files found in your System Folder. The update includes several new features. According to SearchWare Solutions:
SearchWare Solutions has updated Eradicator, its freeware tool for deleting old, unused files from the MacOS' invisible "Temporary Items" folder, to Version 1.2.
The "Temporary Items" folder is an invisible folder on a Macintosh hard drive which is a place for applications to store temporary data. This folder is normally invisible because it generally requires no user interaction. Many software titles make use of this "Temporary Items" folder, and most correctly delete their temporary files when they are done using them. However, other titles don't, leaving the files behind in the "Temporary Items" folder, without the user realizing that there are unused files taking up space on the hard drive.
Earlier versions of the MacOS would automatically move the contents of this folder into the Trash (in a folder named "Rescued Items from Macintosh HD") every time the computer was restarted, allowing the user to delete these unused and unneeded files. However, as widely reported on many Macintosh web sites, there are appears to be some sort of problem with this feature in MacOS 9, so these temporary files are building up on users hard drives and taking up space.
Eradicator 1.2 is a solution to this problem. It lists the files currently in the "Temporary Items" folder, and allows the user to delete these files, with the added safeguard that it will not allow the user to delete files that are currently in use. When the user "deletes" a file, it is not actually deleted, but instead moved to the trash for the user to double-check his or her decision before emptying the trash.
The new version of Eradicator adds the ability to work with the "Temporary Items" on any mounted volume as well as getting more information about the files contained in the folder.
Version 1.2 also fixes a bug which could cause earlier versions of Eradicator to crash on Macs running MacOS 8.0 or 8.1. Memory management and error-checking have also been improved.
Eradicator requires a PowerPC-based Macintosh running System 8.x or higher.
