Hello. I would have expected that creating a "temporary dir" would be deleted at application exit. Should it? It doesn't appear to today, which surprised me... >> Dir.mktmpdir => "C:/Users/packrd/AppData/Local/Temp/d20120917-5400-1rz8p6k" >> File.directory? "C:/Users/packrd/AppData/Local/Temp/d20120917-5400-1rz8p6k" => true >> exit C:\>irb >> File.directory? "C:/Users/packrd/AppData/Local/Temp/d20120917-5400-1rz8p6k" => true Thanks. -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.