RE: Why are all these files created and saved?

> Can someone please tell me why 'okular' saves a file like the example 
> below every time it is used?
>
> Is there any good reason why all these hundreds of nuisance files 
> should not be deleted? I've deleted a few and it has no affect on 
> opening another copy of the example .pdf file.
>
> What (if anything) is the purpose for okular to create all these 
> nuisance files to clutter up my file system? And is there some way to 
> put a stop to it?
>
> The same seems to be true for an unknown number of other programs that 
> create thousands of what seem to be nuisance, space-wasting files that 
> I keep finding on my system.
>
>
> ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/239422.edge.pdf.xml
>
> CONTENTS:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE documentInfo> 
> <documentInfo 
> url="/home/joe/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/239422.edge.pdf.xml">
>   <pageList/>
>   <generalInfo>
>    <history>
>     <current viewport="0;C2:0.499582:0.304825:1"/>
>    </history>
>    <views>
>     <view name="PageView">
>      <zoom mode="1" value="1.995"/>
>     </view>
>    </views>
>   </generalInfo>
> </documentInfo>
>
>
>
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