From 6743c96a5c212a390dc77b9ed572146264a59492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WorldTeacher <41587052+WorldTeacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 15:56:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor delete_temp_contents function to handle absolute
 paths

---
 src/backend/delete_temp_contents.py | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/delete_temp_contents.py b/src/backend/delete_temp_contents.py
index 5eabca7..583de9c 100644
--- a/src/backend/delete_temp_contents.py
+++ b/src/backend/delete_temp_contents.py
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 import os
 from omegaconf import OmegaConf
+from pathlib import Path
 config = OmegaConf.load("config.yaml")
 
 def delete_temp_contents():
     """
     delete_temp_contents deletes the contents of the temp directory.
     """
-    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(config.database.tempdir):
+    path = config.database.tempdir
+    path = path.replace("~", str(Path.home()))
+    path = Path(path)
+    path = path.resolve()
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
         for file in files:
             os.remove(os.path.join(root, file))
         for dir in dirs:
-            os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, dir))
\ No newline at end of file
+            os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, dir))
+            
+            
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    delete_temp_contents()
\ No newline at end of file