On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:10:57 -0700
Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> 
> There is a subdirectory in my user files named 'autosave' that 
> I did not create and that never has anything in it (as nearly as 
> I can tell). 
> 
> What is this directory supposed to be for and is there any reason 
> why I should not remove/delete it? 
> 
> Actually, I have noticed quite a few apparently always empty files 
> on my system that I would like to remove/delete unless there is 
> some essential purpose for them.  Is there a list somewhere of 
> all such directories that could be safely removed? 
> 
> Joe 
> 

Joe,

What happens when you type:

cd <directory in question>
ls -a

Does anything show up in that directory?

And please tell us what distro your're using.

Sounds like the directory is there for Koffice, Kwrite, etc. to store backups in case of a crash.

Always empty files?  Or always empty directories? Which is it?  It's not clear to me.

And are you talking about files/directories **outside** your home directory? if so, those shouldn't be tampered with.

Dennisk

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