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@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 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@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, 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@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@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@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@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@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@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss