Hi! When uploading software to my server, there are sometimes files called something like pure-ftpupload54646... that just appear in my folders. What are these files? Why isn't it possible to delete them?
I missed the part about "why can't you delete them" before. When you upload somthing to the server, alot of times the file is too large to realisticly keep stored in memory while it is being uploaded. So a temp file is placed where the file is being uploaded to & the FTP server periodicly dumps the buffer to that temp file. Once the entire file has been uploaded & written to that temp file, the FTP server renames it to the actual filename. The reason you can't delete them is they remain owned by the user the FTP server is running as untill they've been renamed, at which point the FTP server transfers ownership to the user/group that uploaded the file.