Why these mostly empty hidden files?

[Andrew Harris]

Seems like an unlikely candidate. But we've had less likely candidates.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Funny.  No, it's more like there's a whole pile of tracking stuff of
> some sort that I for one didn't know about.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Harris <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>> Wow, it's like somebody did work for all those directories and files
>> and they don't want to pay the bill. Am I right, Jim?
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick.
>>>
>>> WTF is this stuff?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today, I was shocked to find a thousand-plus empty hidden directories and
>>>> files on my system and I don't know how they got there or why there are
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any reason why I should not delete them?
>>>>
>>>> There may be more in other places, but the ones I just discovered are
>>>> buried deep in these two sub-directories:
>>>>
>>>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/2ETARA88
>>>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
>>>>
>>>> I hate flash for a lot of reasons, but now even more as it seems to be
>>>> hiding things on my system -- 310 mostly empty directories in 2ETARA88 and
>>>> another 1227 mostly empty directories in flashplayer/sys
>>>>
>>>> Very annoying.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>