How to PERMANENTLY DISABLE the "Processed Files" list?

[CassySpencer]

I've asked variations of questions on this before but no one seems to answer. I found that on a Mac, when you clear the temporary folder from within the application, it it only "deletes" the "temp" folder and creates a new one with the same name. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually delete the files. When you regenerate another image, somehow Python is able to find all the deleted files and re-create them. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get rid of all of the older files. I don't need them and they are taking up too much space. Can they be permanently removed and not ever show me a Processed Files section?

[C0untFloyd]

You seem to be talking about the processed "output" files which have nothing to do with the temporary files. By clicking on:

the corresponding folder should be opened and you can delete the contents yourself.
There's also a setting in the configuration to delete the files automatically:

[CassySpencer]

I don't think you quite get it. Let me explain to you again. If you go into the temp folder and delete all the files or if you delete the folder itself, and then you go and render another image, 100% of all the previously generated images and temporary files are re-inserted back into the temp folder. This is happening on a Mac. Why is this happening and why is this even needed? I don't want the output files to ever be available after I close my browser. This is heating up several hundred gigabytes of space on my computer and every time I delete it, it keeps coming back

[C0untFloyd]

Again, you're talking about different files and folders:

100% of all the previously generated images

Output files in output folder

and temporary files

Webserver generated temp files in temp folder

I don't want the output files

Output files in output folder.

No I don't get you and by the lack of answers from others I'm seemingly not alone. There is absolutely no code whatsoever in the app to restore deleted files but as you might have seen I'm not on Mac. Did you try checking the "Use OS Temp folder" in the settings?

[CassySpencer]

It seems like if the Apple Mac trashcan is not used to delete files on an M4 Mac (with an SSD, obviously), and the files are deleted either through Terminal or there a Python call, it seems macOS is somehow able to restore the file and not recognize that it's actually deleted.

Using the "use OS temp folder" option doesn't work for me for some reason. The application doesn't function correctly.

Or, I can tell you that on a one terabyte drive, I'm now down to 200 GB. I don't download anything that ain't that much space. It's this program that's not clearing up space or is not deleting temporary data correctly.