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From: dick balaska
Subject: .povstate dirt
Date: 10 May 2017 01:33:40
Message: <5912a634$1@news.povray.org>
Is there a way to *not* create and leave behind a .povstate on abort?  I 
never use the +C feature, but I abort lots of renders, leaving behind 
this dirt that needs to be occasionally swept up.
-- 
dik


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: .povstate dirt
Date: 10 May 2017 05:15:00
Message: <web.5912d97d9812bf681c5977890@news.povray.org>
dick balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> Is there a way to *not* create and leave behind a .povstate on abort?  I
> never use the +C feature, but I abort lots of renders, leaving behind
> this dirt that needs to be occasionally swept up.
> --
> dik

The POV-Ray 3.7.1 betas provide a dedicated command-line switch for this
purpose: `-CC` will suppress creation of the state file, thus disabling
abort-continue.


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: .povstate dirt
Date: 10 May 2017 16:25:00
Message: <web.591375fc9812bf68883fb31c0@news.povray.org>
I was about to post a similar question-- having to do with state file(s)
remaining somewhere within a series of animation frames after I've paused and
continued the render several times-- but that seems to have been some kind of
glitch with my computer instead, as I can't reproduce it (which is good!) The
state-file(s) correctly disappear after the animation is complete.

I didn't know about the command-line switch to disable them; that looks to be
useful.


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From: dick balaska
Subject: Re: .povstate dirt
Date: 10 May 2017 19:11:57
Message: <59139e3d$1@news.povray.org>
Am 2017-05-10 05:12, also sprach clipka:
> dick balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
>> Is there a way to *not* create and leave behind a .povstate on abort?  I
>> never use the +C feature, but I abort lots of renders, leaving behind
>> this dirt that needs to be occasionally swept up.
>> --
>> dik
>
> The POV-Ray 3.7.1 betas provide a dedicated command-line switch for this
> purpose: `-CC` will suppress creation of the state file, thus disabling
> abort-continue.
>
>
>

As is clearly documented in the wiki
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:General_Output_Options#Resuming_Options

I should have asked the wiki, instead of google. ;)

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dik


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