Why these mostly empty hidden files?

[Dan Lund]

Never attribute to malice what can be easily attributed to laziness/hubris :)

I'm sure it's just flash leaving it's wrappers laying around after camping.

--Dan

On May 3, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Andrew Harris wrote:

> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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