Cannot prevent logs and other empty files creation

[PunkHaz4rd]

Bug report

There should be an option to just not create, or at least clean after itself from First Run, Local State & the folder Default created after a run.

• Node Version: v7.2.1
• Protractor Version: 5.1.1
• Angular Version: 1.3.13
• Browser(s): chrome
• Operating System and Version linux
• Your protractor configuration file:

exports.config = {
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8100',
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome',
    'chromeOptions': {
      args: ['--disable-web-security', '--user-data-dir']
    }
  },
  directConnect: true,
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    isVerbose: false,
  },
  specs: [
    'e2e-tests/**/*.test.js'
  ]
};

• A relevant example test
  Just write any test at all.

• Output from running the test
  whatever the output of the test, I always get First Run, Local State & the folder Default that polute my test folder.

• Steps to reproduce the bug
  Just launch whatever test.

[NickTomlin]

This is a result of --user-data-dir and not something that protractor itself is doing. I don't think this is our responsibility to clean up for a chrome driver option. My thoughts here are that should set this to a temporary directory (e.g. randomized) or a directory that you can clean up in a before/after block for your tests.

That said, i'm very open to discussion here.

[PunkHaz4rd]

Oh ! That's why I couldn't find anything that linked those files to protractor in the first place. My bad.
I'll set up the cleaning myself, it would not make sense to code something that check if that option is used then clean up yourself while not having any means to know about the evolution of that feature / bug.