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Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
January 12, 2015, 02:27:49 am
When using CiviMail to send out a newsletter, smarty generates two files per recipient (html and txt?) in the folder "templates_c". Each file is about 50 kb each which sums up to a couple of GB if you have around 40k recipients.

Also, those files are not deleted by the job "Clean-up Temporary Data and Files" or any other automated task. The only way is to perform "Cleanup Caches" manually.

We will try to find out why the job "Clean-up Temporary Data and Files" does not clean up those files.

We are however wondering why those temporary files are necessary in the first place. Does anyone know what they are used for and/or why those files would not be cleaned up later?

Any feedback would be appreciated :)

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Fabian

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Re: Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
January 12, 2015, 11:15:41 am
Hi,

It's smarty compiling each msg. I recall one (from EFF? micah?) trying to disable the compilation and being stopped somewhere, don't recall the detail.

Ideally, there is a single compiled file that would call the function that generates the token instead of one compiled file per recipient. that would probably improve a lot performances as well.
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Re: Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
January 12, 2015, 01:07:04 pm

r u using smarty tokens in civimail newsletters? if not, might be best to disable that option

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Re: Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
January 15, 2015, 07:29:12 pm
I am having this same issue with the unnecessary ? since upgrading to 4.5.5 on Wordpress.  I tried to find where to disable the smarty option but could not find it. Could anyone tell me where to do this?

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Re: Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
March 29, 2015, 04:57:50 pm
The question I don't think was answered fully here. I am also experiencing that for Joomla 3.4.x ~/media/civicrm/templates_c/ is not being flushed when using this function. It is equally as important as the other caches to flush.

I don't know where to find the coding that performs this function to add the templates cache path to. Please advise.

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Re: Smarty generates (unnecessary?) temporary files which are not cleaned up
July 21, 2015, 08:52:52 am
Work to extend the cleanup job api is in progress for 4.7: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-16871
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